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To make the most rational decisions, use your gut — Ada Nguyen

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I recently made the decision to leave my comfortable, stable job to join a pre-revenue startup as the first employee . With the economic uncertainty going on in the world, it was a hard decision to make. Being a left-brained tech person, I agonized for weeks on how to tackle the decision

I recently made the decision to leave my comfortable, stable job to join a pre-revenue startup as the first employee. With the economic uncertainty going on in the world, it was a hard decision to make. Being a left-brained tech person, I agonized for weeks on how to tackle the decision making process as rationally as possible. I looked up mental models and read as much as possible about how to make decisions without biases. I listed out all objective criteria I could think of then gave weight to each criterion. However, as time went on, I had more criteria to add, and the weights I’ve…

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