About

I'm Stephen Hooper — 66 years old, and the only person behind DecisionsDecisions. There's no company, no team, no investors. Just me.

I came to this later than most. My career was in capital equipment sales to electronics factories, not software. I'd written code decades ago, in ANSI C, and largely left it behind. A late-in-life diagnosis of AuDHD brought me back to it, in a roundabout way.

I'm not remotely ashamed of being neurodivergent — it's who I am, and if reading this encourages even one other person to accept their own identity a little more comfortably, that's worth saying out loud.

Part of what I live with is a kind of mental fog when I'm overwhelmed — too many things competing for attention, no clear way to see which one actually matters most. One particularly bad day, unable to decide what to tackle first out of a long list of tasks, I went looking for a better way to think it through. That search led me to pairwise comparison — the simple idea that it's far easier to weigh two things against each other, one pair at a time, than to rank a whole list at once.

I built myself a rough version in Excel. It worked. Genuinely worked, in a way that surprised me.

That could have been the end of it, but showing it to a few people made it obvious this wasn't just useful to me. Friends and family started suggesting other things it could help with — what to eat on a night out, which of several changes to make first, decisions that had nothing to do with task lists at all. So I taught myself modern web development and built it properly: free to use, no accounts, no personal data collected, nothing kept beyond what's needed to show you your own result.

That's still the whole point of this site. Not to tell you what to decide — just to make the deciding itself a little less overwhelming.