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Notes on Making Decisions With Incomplete Information

A founder's working notes on the actual mechanics of deciding when you don't have enough information — and why waiting for more information is itself a decision.

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Jay Sudha founded Modern Self Journal out of a fairly ordinary frustration: most writing about self-improvement either oversimplifies the mind into a slogan or buries a useful idea in academic hedging.

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