Nathan Barry explains how unresolved decisions drain your time and energy constantly. He recommends sorting decisions into a Google Doc by now, next, and later to cut the mental overhead of uncertainty.
Time is very, very expensive, and not just the time of sitting down to do a task, but the time that you let things go by, you let uncertainty persist, or you let the lack of a decision go on. If you were to leave all these outstanding decisions, like, they actually cost energy and they cost time. And so like, we have a just a simple Google Doc that we keep track of like what are the decisions that we need to make, and they're just categorized into like a now, next, later. Of like, we're deliberately not making these decisions now so we can get rid of some of that overhead there in the later bucket. Next is like we're collecting information and then now is no, but really, like you are costing uncertainty overhead, whatever, for as long as you don't make this decision. And that, that helps a lot.
