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Today’s Perspective Shift

From: reacting to work
To: filtering work through intention

Theme for the Quarter: Intelligent Innovation
Theme for the Week: Decide, Then Delegate

✨ In Today’s Episode:

• The 3 filters behind effective founder decision-making

• How to reduce decision fatigue

• How to turn your priorities into a grounded daily rhythm

• A simple framework for deciding what to keep, shift, or delegate

The Founder’s Decision Filter

A simple three-part lens that sharpens every choice you make

🧠 ONE Smart Idea

A founder’s power comes from how they decide, not how fast they decide.

Decisions become easier when they follow a predictable structure.

Instead of weighing every option from zero, you move choices through a consistent set of filters that reveal what matters most.

The result:

Fewer open loops.
Less emotional clutter.
Cleaner handoffs.
A calmer mental landscape.

A decision filter doesn’t limit you.

It frees your attention by turning ambiguity into direction.

📖 Story Spark

I once advised a founder who made every decision from urgency.

Everything felt important.
Every request felt immediate.
Every task got the same level of energy.

By midweek, his mind was stretched thin.

By Friday, he couldn’t remember what he had actually accomplished.

I gave him a simple exercise:
“Run every decision through the same three questions.”

Priority.
Energy.
ROI.

Within days, his week felt different.
His choices had structure.
His mind felt anchored.
He stopped treating every task like a mini-fire drill.

He told me, “I finally feel like I’m deciding from clarity, not pressure.”

⚙️ Tactical Application: The 3 Filters of Founder Decision-Making

Before you commit, decline, schedule, or delegate…pass the work through these filters.

1. Priority Filter: Does this align with what matters this week?

If it doesn’t support your top outcomes, it becomes noise.
This filter protects your direction.

Questions to ask:

• Does this map to a current objective?

• Is this part of the work that moves the business forward?

• Is this urgent or just visible?

2. Energy Filter: Do I have the right capacity for this?

Every decision has an energetic cost.
Some tasks require creativity. Others require stamina. Some require focus.

Questions to ask:

• Am I the best person to do this right now?

• Does this match my current state—morning clarity, afternoon momentum, end-of-day closure?

• Should this be done at all?

3. ROI Filter: What is the return on doing this?

Not every valuable task has a financial ROI…some create clarity, momentum, or long-term leverage.

Questions to ask:

• What outcome does this produce?

• Does this create a benefit now, later, or both?

• Is the return worth the input?

When a decision passes all three filters, you move forward with confidence.
When it fails one, the path becomes obvious—delay it, reshape it, or delegate it.

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🧭 Intelligent Elevation

Filtering decisions through Priority • Energy • ROI creates structure in your thinking.
It also reduces the subtle fatigue that comes from making choices without a framework.

You stop carrying decisions in your mind.
You start moving through your week with clarity.

This is how founders protect their attention, preserve their energy, and strengthen their ability to lead.

🧵 What’s Happening in AI

Catch up on the #AI + #Business news over the last 24 hours. (November 25, 2025)

::: THE HEADLINES :::

⚡️ @Meta Platforms is in talks to spend billions on Google’s AI chips, posing a challenge to Nvidia’s dominance in the sector.

📈 @Alibaba’s newly relaunched AI chatbot Qwen App surpassed 10 million downloads in its first week, boosting its global AI ambitions.

📉 @Nvidia’s stock slid amid the report that Meta might bypass it in favour of Google’s tensor units, raising market concerns about hardware dominance.

📊 @Zoom announced better‑than‑expected earnings and emphasised stronger AI adoption in its enterprise communications platform.

🏗️ @Amazon committed to investing $15 billion in Northern Indiana to build new data‑centre campuses and boost AI/cloud infrastructure.

💰 @Meta Platforms secured a private capital deal worth around $27 billion for its “Hyperion” data‑centre push and AI talent hiring.

::: USEFUL TECH UPDATES :::

⚖️ OpenAI tests decision-support models designed to analyze tradeoffs and summarize options.

🧩 Notion updates workspace automations that categorize tasks by priority and complexity.

📊 Zapier introduces “Outcome Routing” to help founders direct tasks based on expected ROI.

💬 Closing Insight

Every decision becomes clearer when you run it through the same lens.
Clarity scales. Chaos repeats.

Summary:
A simple three-filter system strengthens direction and preserves energy.

Takeaway:
Let your decisions be shaped by intention, not impulse.

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