Len Fisher's Blog, page 3

How to Make Good Decisions Fast

The fastest important decision that I ever made was to ask my present wife to marry me after I had known her for barely a week. She asked for 24 hours to think about it, and then said "Yes." Twenty years on, we are still happily married. Science is now producing reasons in support of our apparent impetuosity.

It is a science that was unknown in the days of Benjamin Franklin, who used "moral algebra" to make his decisions. "My way" he said "is to divide half a sheet of paper by a line into...