**The decision** Whether to spend the next quarter rewriting the billing service, or ship the three customer-facing features already committed for the same quarter — given that the team cannot credibly do both and the rewrite has no external deadline. **The three criteria that matter** 1. Reversibility — which choice is cheaper to undo in six months if it turns out wrong 2. Compounding cost — whether delay makes the work meaningfully harder or only later 3. Credibility with the people who wer
Decision filter
Cuts a stuck decision down to four things: what you're actually deciding, the three criteria that matter, the option those criteria pick, and one sentence of reasoning.