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2022-12

My favourite font maker

In Dec 2022, I went looking for script fonts, and landed on 1001fonts.com.

And almost all the fonts I liked were by Youssef Habchi !

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2022-04-05

The 3 best decision making tools ever

1.

One of the best decision making tools I have ever come across is an A4 sheet of paper. Fold into quarters. Open out.

Top left is Option 1 (say, current job or fully automatic washing machine, whatever), advantages. Top right is Option 2 (say, new job or semi-automatic washing machine), advantages. Bottom left is Option 1, disadvantages. Bottom right (you guessed it) is Option 2, disadvantages. Write every possible thing on the sheet, small or big. Then circle the big ones (double circle the really big ones) and cross out the negligible ones. You should see the circles lining up top left bottom right or top right bottom left. Voila, decision made.

If you tend to have large handwriting, use an A3 size sheet, which is made by sticking two A4 sheets along the long side; no need to buy a whole ream for just one sheet.

If you are very neat by nature or the sheet is looking very messy at this point, you can make a fresh sheet with only the circled options.

Sometimes, it helps to join related circles so that you don't toss out a lot of related 'small' items because they may combine into one big one after all.

2.

Ok, that didn't work? Circles lining up horizontally only? (If they line up vertically, the other option is not a real option, and you can ignore it totally.) Try method 2.

Spend the whole of tomorrow imagining yourself in the state of Option 1 (current job, using a fully automatic machine) for a year (or two, or whatever). Spend the next day imagining yourself in the state of Option 2 (keep it to the same duration). Which day(s) made you feel better? Sometimes, it helps to do this for two or even three days consecutively.

3.

Still stuck? Method 3:

Toss a coin. By the time the coin comes down, either you will be mentally shouting HEADS HEADS HEADS or TAILS TAILS TAILS. If you are not, go with whatever the coin says.

Trust me. These are the 3 best decision making tools EVER.

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