From the trolley post · 37,000 likes · 1,097 people arguing in the comments
How to make the call when every option hurts.
Someone Has To Decide is a free book for anyone stuck between two bad options. Start with the question from the post.
A runaway trolley will kill five people tied to the track. You can pull a lever and divert it onto a side track, where it will kill one. Do you pull it?
Your call
Now the twist. The one person is the only one who noticed the trolley and tried to warn the others. Does your answer hold?
If it wobbled, that is what the book is about. Forty minutes, and you will know which part of a hard call is actually yours to carry.
The whole book, free. It opens right away.
If this is your week
Every option costs someone. You still have to pick.
You're responsible for something you can't win. It never ends. Everyone around you is sure you're choosing wrong. And you can't tell if any of it matters.
You argued about a trolley on the internet this week. So did seven thousand other people. Almost none of them were talking about trolleys.
After the book
The 200 dilemma cards
The question from the post, plus 199 more, each with a twist on the back. You print them at home. One goes on the table when you want a real conversation instead of the usual one.
Get the 200 cards: $9Instant download. Print them tonight and one is on the table at dinner.
Coming
The hardback
Printed, casewrap, the real thing on a shelf. First run is small. Everyone on the email list gets it before anyone else and at a lower price than it will ever be sold for again.
Nothing to do now. Get the book above and you are already on the list.
Questions
Before you read
What is Someone Has To Decide?
It's a free book about hard calls, the kind where every option costs someone. It takes about forty minutes to read. It helps you sort out which part of the choice is really yours to carry.
Who is it for?
Anyone stuck between two bad options. A parent, a boss, a caregiver, or anyone who argued about the trolley this week and felt it hit closer than it should.
What happens when I give my email?
The book opens on this page right away as a PDF. A copy goes to your inbox too. One click stops the emails, any time.
What are the 200 dilemma cards?
A $9 printable deck. The trolley question plus 199 more, each with a twist on the back. Print them at home and put one on the table at dinner.
Someone has to decide. Know what is yours to carry.
One question from the post, then the whole book, free.
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