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620 I tracked every decision I made for a year that started with ‘I don’t mind, you choose’ and realized I wasn’t being easygoing. I was running a conflict avoidance protocol so deeply embedded I had genuinely mistaken it for having no preferences.

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Lachlan Brown @ Silicon Canals · 03/20/2026 09:04 EDT

I tracked every decision I made for a year that started with ‘I don’t mind, you choose’ and realized I wasn’t being easygoing. I was running a conflict avoidance protocol so deeply embedded I had genuinely mistaken it for having no preferences.

A year-long experiment tracking every deferred decision revealed that 'I don't mind, you choose' was rarely genuine flexibility — it was a deeply embedded conflict avoidance pattern masquerading as personality.

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