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Protect Your Decision Budget

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Hillman Lentz
Jun 08, 2026
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Let me tell you something I learned the hard way—you don’t run out of time first, you run out of decision quality. And once that drops, everything else follows.

Early in my career, I thought working longer hours meant I was getting more done. What I was really doing was making worse decisions as the day went on. Small mistakes, bad calls, unnecessary del…

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