To decide or not to decide. That is the question.
If there is no free will, do decisions exist?
After this deep start, we are going back to the topic and that is making decisions.
Originally, this thought started with me getting flustered by tech articles and I was wondering what it was that rubbed me the wrong way.
It’s because most of the tech articles are “I’m doing this”, but they are written, mostly unintentionally, as “This why it’s the best thing after sliced bread for everyone”. Maybe I’m just in some google and LinkedIn bubbles pushing only different forms of sales articles.
It’s when there is no decision making described or a context of a problem. There is no “as opposed to” or “these are the tradeoffs” or “the issues we didn’t expect”.
Talking about reasons why we’ve made a decision is a great way how to learn. Documenting those make it even better as a lot of learning and mistakes show up after a long period of time. And by then you might not even remember why you’ve done something.
Sharing the reasoning is a great way how to get people on board and engaged.
And as time goes on you will start to see more and more variables going to a decision and hopefully see some of the issues popping up or things to look for. You will start to learn how to explain them clearly, by understanding where to start to tell the whole story effectivelly.
But the lack of reasoning isn’t only prevalent in articles, which have fairly limited lenght. You can see the same pattern at conferences as well. Usually, you get it when people talk about ideas but frame them as they have successfully implemented them. Or they have just restructured teams and will tell you how amazing it is, whilst people even don’t know who their managers are. And of course, there are no tradeoffs. Or there are, but they are for the next person to deal with.
Everything has tradeoffs. Except for this cheese toastie, I’m stuffing my face with. That one is perfect.
Just above average 