Where Should We Eat?: What Dinner Teaches Us About Modern Decision-Making

Everyone’s had that conversation: “What do you want for dinner?” “I don’t know, what do you want?” “Anything’s fine.” “Okay, how about Thai?” “Ugh, not in the mood for Thai.”

It’s a minor friction most of us have encountered hundreds of times—two people, trying to make one small decision together. But even something as simple as dinner can reveal a lot about how collaboration breaks down.