How to name the choice in front of you, beside The Opportunity Notebook with Suneet Singal. The pages in this subject are reference entries. They define a term, show a labeled hypothetical where a number helps, and point to a public source. They sit next to Suneet Singal’s biography, which is the page that carries the personal record.
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- Suneet Singal on what decision you are actually trying to make
Suneet Singal on naming the decision you are actually trying to make before facts, options, and meetings start answering a question nobody wrote down. - Suneet Singal on whose definition of success you are using
Suneet Singal on whose definition of success you are using, and how a borrowed scoreboard can steer a choice toward a test you never agreed to take. - Suneet Singal on opportunity cost
Suneet Singal on opportunity cost: the value of the next-best use of the same time, money, or attention, including the option nobody bothers to name. - Suneet Singal on reversible and irreversible decisions
Suneet Singal on reversible and irreversible decisions, and how to match the speed of a choice to whether the door can still be opened again. - Suneet Singal on the premortem
Suneet Singal on the premortem, a structured habit of imagining a plan has already failed so the quiet risks get said before the work starts. - Suneet Singal on second-order effects
Suneet Singal on second-order effects, the later consequences that follow a first result, and how to look for the ones a plan leaves unseen. - Suneet Singal on checklists for high-stakes choices
Suneet Singal on checklists for high-stakes choices, borrowing the habit of a pause from surgical safety without pretending a meeting is medicine. - Suneet Singal on expected value without fake precision
Suneet Singal on expected value without fake precision: a labeled arithmetic for uncertain options, and a warning against invented decimals. - Suneet Singal on sunk costs
Suneet Singal on sunk costs, and why money, time, or effort already spent is a fact about the past rather than a reason to keep the same course. - Suneet Singal on how to write a one-page decision memo
Suneet Singal on how to write a one-page decision memo that names the choice, the alternatives, the test of success, and the date of review. - Suneet Singal on base rates
Suneet Singal on base rates: how often this kind of thing happens in a reference class, and why that record belongs beside the story of one case. - Suneet Singal on narrow framing
Suneet Singal on narrow framing, the habit of judging one choice in isolation, and a practical way to widen the frame by one honest step before you commit.