# AI Decision-Making Frameworks

We make about 35,000 decisions per day, mostly on autopilot. The ones that keep you up at night — career changes, relocations, relationship decisions, major purchases — deserve structured thinking. AI is an excellent thinking partner for these moments.

Framework 1: Regret Minimization

Jeff Bezos used this to decide whether to leave Wall Street and start Amazon. It is powerful for irreversible or hard-to-reverse decisions:

I am facing a major decision and want to use the regret minimization
framework. Here is my situation:

DECISION: Should I leave my stable corporate job to start a business?

Walk me through these questions:
1. If I take this path and it fails, will I regret TRYING in 10 years?
2. If I do NOT take this path, will I regret NOT TRYING in 10 years?
3. What is the worst realistic outcome if it fails? (Not worst
   imaginable — worst realistic.)
4. Can I recover from the worst realistic outcome? How long?
5. What would I need to see in 6 months to know this was the right
   call?
6. What would I need to see in 6 months to know I should reverse
   course?

Be honest and push back if my thinking seems biased in either
direction. I want clarity, not encouragement.

Framework 2: Weighted Pros/Cons