Looking back, from much later, would the view be the same as it appears today.

Make a future decision, looking back. Weight the options - the rewards, the regrets if a road is not explored when it could have, indeed should very well have been.

- Vigs

Decisions to be made today based on information which will arrive the day after.

Not too many options: flip a coin, wait, project, predict based on the past, or what. With too much at stake to let chance have so much of a say in something important to us. Learn about the conditions under which the decision is being made, so that the next time around, and usually there is going to be a next time, we is more control over the situation, and sooner too. Note the conditions or constrains under which the present decision is being made, so that others who need to base their decisions off ours have a better view of the situation. When everyone is better informed, it is easier to arrive at a better decision too. If the decision has to be made, make it.

- Vigs