Decision making · 12 min
What happens when you do not make a decision: it gets made
Waiting feels neutral. What happens when you do not make a decision is that a default, a deadline or someone else makes it, one closure at a time.
InwittBlogNotes on thinking clearly
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Clear thinking
8 essays on clear thinking.
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Decision making · 11 min
Signs of poor decision making: seven you can check
Most lists describe a personality. The signs of poor decision making worth having are facts about how a choice got made, checkable after the fact.
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Overthinking · 12 min
Stop overthinking in a relationship: three kinds of doubt
Most guidance on how to stop overthinking in a relationship tries to quiet the thought. Sorting it by who could answer it ends it faster.
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Overthinking · 13 min
Overanalyzing: the stopping rule nobody writes down
The hours are not the problem. Overanalyzing is analysis that never agreed on what would settle the question, so it ends in exhaustion instead.
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Overthinking · 13 min
Get out of your head: the two exits, and which one holds
Grounding helps you get out of your head for ten minutes. Sorting the loop on paper gets you out for good. Which exit fits which thought, and why.
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Critical thinking · 12 min
7 steps of critical thinking: the two most people skip
Every list of the 7 steps of critical thinking gives seven verbs. Here each step is a question with a written output and a test that it is done.
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Critical thinking · 12 min
Critical thinking with examples: the move, not the scene
Most critical thinking with examples pages show a scene and a happy ending. Six situations shown as the move itself: belief, question, result.
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Critical thinking · 12 min
Reasoning critically: what it means and how to do it
Most guides say to question your assumptions. Reasoning critically is harder, because reasoning evolved to defend conclusions, not to test them.
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