Regret Minimization Framework

A framework is scaffolding, not the building. Regret Minimization Framework holds your thinking up while you do the real work.

Use the framework as a checklist, not a straitjacket. The moment it starts answering questions for you, rather than sharpening them, put it back in the drawer.

The idea is simple, and like most simple ideas it is easy to nod at and hard to use. The nod is free. The use costs attention, every day, in small change.

At the bus stand in a small town, goodbyes are long and arrivals are loud. Both are correct. A life is measured by how seriously it takes each.

In the end, life asks only whether we were awake while it happened. The name is new; the wisdom stood at bus stops long before either of us.