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Why we finally wrote down our decision log

We used to keep decisions in people's heads. That worked until the people changed.

Ida Mercer

We used to keep decisions in people's heads. That worked until the people changed. Now every decision over a week of impact gets three lines in a shared log: what we decided, why, and what would make us reverse it.

Ida Mercer

I write Azimuth from Rotterdam. Before this I ran operations at two small companies and spent a lot of that time watching good teams make avoidable mistakes under time pressure - my own included. This newsletter is the notebook I wish I'd had.

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