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Decision Making - The Pressure Test

Eric Eden
Sep 2, 2025
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Decision Making - The Pressure Test

This prompt forces you to critically evaluate a plan by having the AI act as a skeptical board member. It aims to expose core assumptions, logical weaknesses, and potential points of complete failure without offering solutions.

Prompt

This is my plan: [insert detailed strategy]. Act as a skeptical board member who's seen 100 startups fail. Identify: - 3 core assumptions I'm making - The weakest link in my logic chain - What would need to be true for this to fail completely - The one question that would make me reconsider everything. Don't suggest solutions yet. Just expose the cracks.
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