[perchard]

    Whenever you’re called on to make up your mind,
        and you’re hampered by not having any,
    best way to solve the dilemma, you’ll find,
      is simply by spinning a penny.
    No—not so that chance shall decide the affair
      while you’re passively standing there moping;
    but the moment the penny is up in the air,
      you suddenly know what you’re hoping.

https://statweb.stanford.edu/~cgates/PERSI/papers/thinking.p...

[icelandicmoss]

Came across this column/essay a while back on the theme of making life decisions based on what your future self would regret not doing, and it's stuck with me: https://therumpus.net/2011/04/dear-sugar-the-rumpus-advice-c...