From a New York Times guest essay by Robert E. Rubin headlined “I Don’t Have the Secret to Making Hard Decisions, But I Do Have a Yellow Note Pad”:

Rubin was the U.S. Treasury secretary from 1995-99 and is the author of “The Yellow Pad: Making Better Decisions in an Uncertain World,” from which this essay is excerpted.

Not long after my appointment as director of President Clinton’s National Economic Council in 1993, a letter arrived in my West Wing office. I immediately recognized the writer’s name: Mrs. Dorothy Collins.