Opportunity-Cost Ledger — a worksheet you can use

What it's for

Make explicit what a choice forecloses — the cost of the road not taken.

It belongs to the Cross-cutting family of work and is built for one job: decide. Pairs with: Forks/Growth.

A one-time purchase — yours to use on any project, as many times as you like.

Start from the blank template, or learn from a worked example inside a related story.

Drop it into your next memo, review or board deck — already structured the way strategists think.

Distill any story’s situation, stakes, decision, and outcome onto a single page.

Map the causal chain: action → mechanism → first-order → second-order effect.

Trace the ripple effects of a move two and three steps downstream.