Decision Journal
A one-page decision record in the spirit of Annie Duke and Farnam Street. You fill the top half the moment you decide — the call itself, the situation, what you expect to happen, how confident you are on a 0–100 gauge, the assumptions that must hold, and the signals that would tell you you were wrong. The bottom half stays blank on purpose: a panel for a future you to record what actually happened and score whether it was a good decision, regardless of how it turned out. Capturing your reasoning before the result is in is the simplest cure for hindsight bias — your past self, on the record. Leave any line blank to fill in by hand.
- Portrait
- 1 page
- Reflection
Best for: Getting honest about your judgment over time — so you can tell a good decision from a lucky one.
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