Fast decisions are fine for small things. Save your slow thinking for what’s hard to undo.

Deliberation is limited and most choices do not deserve any of it. Which sandwich, which shirt, which route, which film: being quick there is not carelessness, it is leaving room. The decisions worth real time are the ones with teeth, where reversing costs money, years or a friendship. Spreading equal care over everything guarantees too little for the few that matter.

Sort this week’s decisions into reversible and not. Give the reversible ones thirty seconds and a shrug. Put the hard-to-undo one on paper, sleep on it, and talk to somebody who has made a similar call.