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Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions

https://herbertlui.net/recoverable-and-irrecoverable-decisions/
27•herbertl•2h ago

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Insanity•1h ago
Often framed as “one vs two-way doo decisions” at Amazon.

Video of Bezos talking about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxsdOQa_QkM.

IMO it’s a useful decision making strategy at times, mostly to not overthink the easily reversible.

pxx•1h ago
what? this article is making a different point if you read past the title.

> Conventional leadership advice suggests looking at decisions as reversible or non-reversible. Many important, non-reversible, decisions are recoverable, though.

Insanity•1h ago
I don’t think it’s different. Recoverable == Reversible to an extend. Unless you take reversible in the strictest sense of “undo” it’s different. But you can’t “undo” a leadership decision, all you can do is later correct it and recover.

So imo it’s splitting hairs over the same outcome.

An example - say you introduce 5 day return to office. Half you staff leaves and you now go back to a flexible work from home model. You don’t “undo” the damage done, but you can recover. It was a costly 2-way door.

samsolomon•1h ago
I've often thought along similar lines. I've found that indecision is almost always worse than a bad one. Very few choices are so decisive that you can't course-correct later.

That mindset has served me well both personally and professionally.

dnw•52m ago
I actually like hats, haircuts, and tattoos. Seldom we have irrecoverable decisions--except death. https://jamesclear.com/quotes/i-think-about-decisions-in-thr...

(Also works well with LLMs, for risk assessments)

buildsjets•21m ago
Timing is everything. A bad haircut decision right before the most important job interview of your life might not be recoverable.

Great Clips or Weldon Barber, are you feeling lucky?

414techie•8m ago
Great concept. Culturally, I think we are better at understanding this than ever before.

In the last 15–20 years, many people have been forced into an uncomfortable moment due to job loss (Great Recession, COVID, AI etc). They have learned to recover. Could this be why we see more entrepreneurs than ever before now?

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Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions

https://herbertlui.net/recoverable-and-irrecoverable-decisions/
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