Write a decision record

Right after a call is made, while the reasoning is still in your head.

Write a decision record for the choice below, for someone who will read it in a year and wonder what we were thinking.

Sections:
- **Decision**, one sentence, in the active voice with who decided
- **Context**: the situation and constraints as of today, including the ones that may not be obvious later
- **Options considered**, and for each, the specific reason it was not chosen
- **Why this one**, with the reasoning, not just the conclusion
- **What we are assuming**, listed so a future reader can check whether it still holds
- **What would make us revisit this**, with a review date
- **What we knowingly accepted**: the downsides we chose to live with

Write the last section honestly. A decision record that lists no downsides is not believed by anyone.

The decision:

Confidence and hindsight. Calibrating how firmly to hold a view, recording the call, and judging it later on its merits.