Why smart people keep making decisions they regret later

What’s worse than wheel-spinning, mistaking sophisticated reactivity with strategic operating, and how much we all just want to be confident in our decision-making.

This article breaks down that cognitive infrastructure into two toolkits: the Anticipation Toolkit for seeing what’s coming before it arrives, and the Navigation Toolkit for steering through uncertainty without losing your strategic thread. These are specific, learnable skills that change how you process complexity, map implications, and navigate uncertainty in real time. And what’s really cool is we’ll do it through scenarios.