Most decisions don't matter as much as you think

Will anyone remember what we decided in six months? Because I think people stress out about a lot of decisions, but I increasingly believe most decisions people stress out about just aren't that important.

The calories you spend on a decision should be proportional to the consequences of that decision, pure and simple.

The most important thing to figure out when dealing with any decision is actually figuring out how important that decision is. You should spend all your time on those very few important decisions and for all other decisions, just go with your gut or delegate it.

As product managers, we feel like every decision we make is high stakes. It's good occasionally to think about, hey, what's the magnitude? And then, is it reversible?

"Mental time travel" refers to Duke's decision-making technique of imagining how current problems will feel years from now to gain perspective.

Nothing is as important as it seems when you're thinking about it. One of the things that I used to try to do with my kids all the time was mental time travel.