Decision Making

How to make decisions as a solo founder. From mental models to practical frameworks to psychological traps.

Pages

• stream-six-layers — Principles as hierarchy: 6 STREAM layers, each builds on the previous
• decision-framework-5-steps — 5 steps from epistemics to action: structured satisficing
• optimizer-syndrome — Maximizers are less happy: satisfice for low-stakes decisions
• antifragile-life-design — Barbell strategy: 90% safe + 10% upside experiments
• kill-iterate-scale — Hard numeric thresholds remove ego from go/no-go decisions

Related

• ikigai-micro-joys — 8-9 micro-joys as alternative to searching for “the mission”

Open Questions

• How to formalize conflict between STREAM layers?
• Can decisions be quantified via STREAM scoring?
• Where’s the line between satisficing and laziness?

Key Sources

• stream-framework-summary — STREAM Framework (0-principles/stream-framework.md)
• 0-principles/manifest.md — Core values