What is batch decisions in advance?

Batch decisions in advance is a concept in personal epistemology: Making decisions in advance removes them from the moment of action.

Example: Every Sunday evening you sit down for twenty minutes and decide what you will eat for every meal that week, what you will wear each day, what your top three work priorities are for Monday through Friday, and what time you will stop working each evening. You write it all down. When Monday morning arrives, you do not stand in front of the closet deliberating. You do not open the fridge and stare. You do not sit at your desk wondering what to focus on. Those decisions were made forty hours ago by a version of you who was rested, unhurried, and thinking clearly. Your Monday self does not decide. Your Monday self executes. The twenty minutes on Sunday did not just save you time — it saved you from the cumulative cognitive erosion of making thirty small decisions under pressure across five days.

This concept is part of Phase 38 (Choice Architecture) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for choice architecture.