[jakelazaroff]

This article made a huge impact on me: https://capwatkins.com/blog/the-sliding-scale-of-giving-a-fu...

When I sense a situation like that incoming, I’ll rate how much I care on a scale of 1–10 and encourage the other party to do the same. The person with the higher number gets their way.

There are basically three possible outcomes:

1. The decision succeeds. Hooray!

2. The decision fails. Learn what you can from the outcome and try another approach. Don’t blame the person who called the decision.

3. The decision doesn’t matter. Maybe the two solutions were both fine, or maybe one was technically worse but inconsequential in practice. You’ve avoided a heated argument over nothing.