Decision Journal

A practice of documenting decisions at the time they’re made — including the reasoning, assumptions, and expected outcomes — to create a record that can be reviewed later. Helps overcome hindsight bias (the tendency to rewrite memory of why we decided something after we know the outcome). Grounded in Richard Feynman’s principle: “You must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.” Referenced in 1- Why You Need to… (tweet).

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