Reasoning LLM models have become really popular these days. It's fun to watch them think, line by line. But imagine you could have something similar for your business? Won't it be nice to always know why your business is the way it is?

Anyway, your business is unique only because of what decisions you've taken at each step, small or big, minute to minute or over decades. Behind every single decision is a set of reasons. They may be flawed, or full of blind spots, but they're needed to take any decision. So, decisions are just a conclusion of a set of reasons. It is this train of reasons that makes your business go chook chook chook.

Now, if we break down reasons, they are essentially just positives and negatives — for or against the decision. They may have consequences, side effects, and many other variables. All this may seem complicated and even too much detail for many, but what if there was a quick & simple way to record it all?

Well, you're staring at it. The text I mean. It is easy to write anywhere (text yourself, email, notes, etc.). Most of us are already used to it. All you have to do is write the reasons behind decisions as soon as you think of them. In fact, we can also make it easier to understand by using simple symbols to mark them as pros or cons. For example, I can simply write:

Hiring expert talent

• + Get work done, instead of wasting time learning it

• - expensive to hire

• + Avoid expensive mistakes

And so on. I call this a pro con list. Simple enough for anyone to do. Easy to share with whoever needs to know. If you can add a timestamp to it too, it will give you a lot of clarity across years too.

Once you have this (ideally in one place), it is easy to see what reasoning was flawed or what worked.

Merry Christmas 🎄