The Decision Fatigue Fix

Product Description

The Decision Fatigue Fix is the evidence-based decision quality system for founders — built on the research showing that the conditions most common in early-stage founding (decision volume; time pressure; sleep deprivation; emotional stakes) are precisely the conditions that most reliably degrade the quality of the decisions that most determine company outcomes.

What’s inside:

The Neuroscience of Decision Fatigue — How the prefrontal cortex depletes with decision volume and what that produces behaviourally. The sleep-decision fatigue compounding effect. The glucose hypothesis and meal timing for decision quality.

The Anatomy of High-Quality Decisions — The six components of high-quality decision-making. The reversibility dimension — the most important single variable for calibrating decision investment. Type 1 vs Type 2 decisions.

Cognitive Biases: The Systematic Errors — The eight biases most relevant to founder decision-making (confirmation bias; sunk cost; availability bias; optimism bias; anchoring; HiPPO effect; Dunning-Kruger; recency bias). Specific de-biasing strategies for each. The pre-mortem as the highest-return de-biasing tool.

Decision Architecture — The decision taxonomy. Timing architecture (peak window; batching; the hard rules). Eliminating trivial decisions. The 90-day sprint plan.

Fast and Slow: When to Trust Intuition — The neuroscience of pattern recognition. The specific conditions under which intuition is vs is not reliable. Integration framework by decision type.

Group Decision Dynamics — The pathologies (groupthink; HiPPO; shared information bias). The co-founder decision dynamic. Evidence-based group decision design.

Irreversible Decisions: The High-Stakes Framework — The true cost of irreversible decisions. The complete high-stakes decision protocol. The six decisions that most determine company trajectory.

The 12-Week Decision Quality Protocol — From audit through taxonomy, bias awareness, intuition calibration, group design, and full integration.

55 pages. Entrepreneur’s Edge Series, Guide 3 of 5.