🧭 Decision Making
How to actually decide, step by step.
Choosing a gift is a decision problem, and decision problems have methods. Not rules like "spend $50" — methods for narrowing, comparing, and knowing when to stop.
These articles are the closest thing to the engine behind MindGift's games, written out in plain language: how to cut a hundred ideas down to three, how to break a tie between two good options, and how to recognize when you've already found the answer.
Articles
How to Choose Between Two Good GiftsTwo finalists, both good, no tiebreaker in sight. The six questions that separate genuinely equal options — and when to let a coin decide.How to Choose a Gift When You Have No Idea What They WantA working method for the blank-page gift problem: three questions that narrow any recipient down to a direction, even when you truly have no idea.How to Choose a Gift Without OverthinkingWhy gift decisions expand to fill the time you give them, and the practical guardrails that get you to a good answer in one sitting.How to Narrow Down Too Many Gift IdeasYou've got 40 tabs open and every option seems fine. Here's how to cut a hundred gift ideas down to three without losing the good ones.
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