TB: Decisions Stacking

Make lower-impact, easier-to-quit decisions that teach you something before committing to the high-impact, hard-to-reverse decision. Stack decisions so that each reversible one generates information that improves the next irreversible one.

One-way doors (irreversible decisions) carry enormous stakes. The natural instinct is to deliberate — but deliberation without experience is just speculation. Decisions stacking replaces speculation with data: rent before you buy, run a pilot before a full launch, date before marrying. Each reversible trial reduces uncertainty before the commitment.

• Decisions Stacking (source note): "Rent before buy" as the canonical example.

• Hard Decisions Are Easy
• Free Roll
• Compounding Returns