Decide fast on things you can undo. Slow down on the things you can’t. Most people mix those up.

The cost of a decision is mostly the cost of being wrong, which varies enormously and gets ignored. People agonise over reversible things because those feel immediate and visible, then rush the permanent ones, which tend to arrive with pressure attached. Sorting by how reversible something is, rather than by how urgent it feels, changes how much time each deserves.

Ask one question before deciding: how hard is this to undo. If the answer is easy, choose now and move on. If the answer is never, take the extra week and say that you are taking it.