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How to Make Better Decisions

a16z Podcast

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Is a Pro Con List Worthless?

When an investment goes bad, you do spend time trying to say, okay, what can I learn? What can I do differently? And then when it goes well, you just spike the ball in the end zone and do a dance. We really are just like spiking the ball, but there's so much to be learned from the wins as well. But here are the problems with a pro con list. The first is that it's flat, it lacks any dimension. It's not a great tool for comparing one option to another. So in that sense, I'd rather just use the decision trade.

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