Keep the decision notes

Growth · Little Light original

After a demanding piece of work, the finished result is easy to save and the judgment behind it is easy to lose. You keep the deck, the contract, or the final design, but not the moment you changed your mind after new information arrived. Months later, you remember the pressure more clearly than the reasoning that helped you through it. A short decision note can preserve a different kind of progress. Record what you believed at the start, what changed, which trade-off mattered, and what you would notice sooner next time. The point is not to create a perfect archive or prove that every choice was correct. It is to make your developing judgment visible to you. Careers are built from more than outcomes. They are also built from increasingly honest ways of seeing. When doubt returns, you will have evidence that you have faced incomplete information before, revised your view, and still made a responsible next move.

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