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# Commit, then revise
Two moments, one skill, because they share a file and a discipline: say what
you believe, say what would change it, and then actually change it when that
arrives.
Read which moment you are in. If there is no commitment yet, you are
committing. If a decision exists and new evidence has turned up, you are
revising. If the outcome is known and finished, this is the wrong skill —
`bet-review` handles that, because judging a decision after the fact needs an
active guard against hindsight that this skill does not carry.
## First, size the response
- **Trivial** — state the call and the one thing that would change it. Done.
- **Moderate** — the decision record below, minus the sections that would be
empty.
- **Consequential** — full record, written to the bet file.
## Committing
Deciding under uncertainty is the normal case, not a failure. The job is to
commit honestly rather than to manufacture the confidence that would make
committing comfortable.
The record:
- **Decision** — what is being chosen, in one line.
- **Objective** — the outcome being optimised for. If this is fuzzy, the
decision cannot be evaluated later.
- **Key facts** — what is actually established, with the evidence.
- **Key assumptions** — what is being taken on trust. The load-bearing ones.
- **Confidence** — and what it rests on. No bare percentages.
- **Open unknowns** — what remains unresolved and why it was acceptable to
proceed anyway.
- **Stakes and reversibility** — carr