Kate Cox

That might be the biggest takeaway from doing the show is, boy, when somebody can't answer the questions, all three of us are like, oh, this episode is going to go totally sideways.

I know there's deeper in the weeds decision-making questions we could ask.

I thought John Fort, when he interviewed Google's former chief decision scientist as a guest episode, super fascinating episode.

And I thought a lot about, should I incorporate more of these kinds of questions?

But to me, the...

Getting the framework of decisions and then putting the framework into practice with what's actually happening in the company is so revealing.

I don't want to get away from it.

So I could definitely think of more.

I'm eager for your contributions or your thoughts.

But actually my suggestion is go ask your boss how they make decisions and let me know how the answers go because I think that would be a fundamentally interesting Decoder episode all on its own.

I have no framework for making decisions.

It's all chaos and panic every single day.

Sorry, Kate.

I get asked this question a lot.

I do think about how I make decisions.

Fundamentally, my goal is to be predictable.

We run a newsroom.

Newsrooms have to run really fast.

If I am not predictable, then all the people who work in the newsroom are always destabilized.

All of us have worked in newsrooms before.