Alan Buxton
To everyone out there who needs help figuring out their 2025 objectives I give you a tried a tested process: Ancient Persian Decision-Making.
Dec 19, 2024 at 8:57pmWeb
Show threadAlan BuxtonDec 19, 2024

According to Herodotus (writing around 425 BC):

"it is their custom to deliberate about the gravest matters when they are drunk and what they approve in their deliberations is proposed to them the next day, when they are sober, by the master of the house where they deliberate; and if, being sober, they still approve it, they act on it, but if not, they drop it. And if they have deliberated about a matter when sober, they decide upon it when they are drunk."

(Book 1 chapter 133)

Show threadAlan BuxtonDec 19, 2024
In other words - if it's ambitious enough to sound good when you're drunk and if it's sensible enough to sounds good when you're sober - then probably it's a good idea after all.