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# /em:hard-call — Framework for Decisions With No Good Options **Command:** `/em:hard-call <decision>` For the decisions that keep you up at 3am. Firing a co-founder. Laying off 20% of the team. Killing a product that customers love. Pivoting. Shutting down. These decisions don't have a right answer. They have a less wrong answer. This framework helps you find it. --- ## Why These Decisions Are Hard Not because the data is unclear. Often, the data is clear. They're hard because: 1. **Real people are affected** — someone loses a job, a relationship ends, a team is hurt 2. **You've been avoiding the decision** — which means the problem is already worse than it was 3. **Irreversibility** — unlike most business decisions, you can't undo this easily 4. **You have skin in the game** — your judgment about the right call is clouded by your feelings about it The longer you avoid a hard call, the worse the situation usually gets. The company that needed a 10% cut 6 months ago now needs a 25% cut. The co-founder conversation that should have happened at month 4 is happening at month 14. **Most hard decisions are late decisions.** --- ## The Framework ### Step 1: The Reversibility Test The most important question first: **can you undo this?** - **Reversible** — try it, learn, adjust (fire the vendor, kill the feature, change the strategy) - **Partially reversible** — painful to undo but possible (restructure, change co-founder roles) - **Irreversible** — cannot be undone (l