One-way or two-way door?

Before you sink a week into it: weigh how hard a decision is to undo against how much rides on it. Reversible calls deserve speed; irreversible ones deserve care. The trap is treating a two-way doorA reversible decision: walk through, look around, and walk back out if you don't like it. Cheap to undo, so it deserves speed over deliberation. like a one-way doorA decision that's hard or impossible to undo once made β€” you can't easily walk back through. Worth slowing down for..

How hard to undo?
Cost to undocheap
freeruinous
Time to undoa day
minutesnever
Entanglementstands alone
stands aloneeverything leans on it
How much rides on it?
Blast radiusmy team
just methe market
Stakes if wrongannoying
a shrugexistential
high stakes ↑↓ low stakes
One-wayslow down
Two-waymind the swing
One-waysmall room
Two-wayjust decide
← one-way (irreversible)two-way (reversible) β†’

Two-way door β€” just decide

Reversible, and not much rides on it.

One person, right now. Don't hold a meeting β€” the cost of deliberating is bigger than the cost of being wrong. Walk through, look around, walk back if you don't like it.

Pulling hardestIt leaves little behind β€” easy to walk back.