The vocabulary
Eight terms this site uses to talk about decisions.
This site runs on a small vocabulary, used precisely. Eight terms is a lens; forty would be a wiki, and wikis don't get owned. Each page below is the canonical definition.
Business, money, people, health, identity. Every hard call pays and charges in all five; the tools you've been handed price only the first.
The five marksHow to know you're holding a hard call and not an operational decision in a costume.
TripwiresStates and dates, set cold, that reopen a decision automatically. Doubt without a tripped wire is weather.
The Call MemoThe one-page artifact that makes decided stay decided. The call isn't made until it's written.
Conviction vs hubrisSame feeling from the inside, different structure. Six observable markers from the documented record.
The ruin lineThe worst cases you don't accept at any odds, and why company death isn't on the list.
The two gamesUpside ownership vs time ownership. The first hard call is choosing your lane before the lane chooses you.
EnoughThe number and the life, written before the moment that tests it. A number that moves silently is a mood with commas.
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