[HN Gopher] Use a Decision Journal
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Use a Decision Journal
Author : ingve
Score : 86 points
Date : 2020-03-26 14:45 UTC (1 days ago)
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| magwa101 wrote:
| The animated gifs make me need to write a decision journal to
| handle this article.
| dchuk wrote:
| This is such a simple, clever idea. I make what feels like
| hundreds of decisions a day (exaggeration but it feels like that
| sometimes) and I frequently finish the day exhausted and unable
| to remember anything.
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| I'm going to whip up a web app for this.
| TimSchumann wrote:
| I think this is a great idea. How we see our decision making
| process in the moment is often vastly different than how we see
| our decision making process retrospectively.
| dchuk wrote:
| Totally agree. And it's also very easy to forget the
| context/why for any given decision, which makes it really
| hard to chain together a series of decisions to figure out
| how you got where you are...
| jasonv wrote:
| Been meaning to spin up a blog every time I spent more than a
| certain amount of time researching and reviewing things and
| then decide on a first or second choice <anything>. I do
| sometimes find myself thinking about one or two elements of the
| other choices but when I try and recollect which one it was, or
| where I was struck by something... it can often be an
| inaccessible part of my recollection.
| munaf wrote:
| http://www.getoutcome.com
| crispinb wrote:
| For software projects a viable alternative to a separate web
| app is to use the repo, eg with a commandline app like Nat
| Pryce's https://github.com/npryce/adr-tools
| Invictus0 wrote:
| Please drop me a line when you're finished!
| dchuk wrote:
| Will do! Do you have contact info somewhere? Twitter?
| ohduran wrote:
| I read until I saw "As an article for Farnam Street recommends",
| and then I stopped reading.
| mturilin wrote:
| What's wrong with Farnam Street?
| James_Henry wrote:
| I think they were just letting us know how much of the blog
| post they read. It could have been that at the Farnam Street
| mention they suddenly realized they had cookies burning in
| the oven.
| npudar wrote:
| Also known as a Decision Record, as described by Russell Ackoff
| in many of his books. Another critical component to include in
| the Decision Record is not just the decision made, but also the
| other alternatives that were considered. The documentation should
| also describe why the other alternatives were not chosen.
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| Since we can only ever learn from our mistakes, a Decision Record
| helps us be honest with ourselves when we are evaluating things
| when they don't go as expected.
| xenonite wrote:
| thank you for the hint. There are many works of Russell Ackoff.
| Could you recommend one of these for this regard?
| jiveturkey wrote:
| for engineers, aka a design doc
| charliepark wrote:
| I have a Google Sheets ... sheet? ... for this, and it's been
| handy.
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| I'm paper trading the stock market while I work on a couple of
| investment ideas (and still feel like I'm learning, so no real
| money yet). Every time I "buy"/"sell" a stock (logged in one tab
| of Google Sheets), I enter the date and the rationale I used when
| making the decision (logged in another tab of the same Sheet), as
| well as some context around the current state of the world. It's
| been useful already (a few months in), but will only get more
| useful, I believe, as I begin to note patterns in my own
| behavior.
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