Tag Archives: Decisions
The Human Brain: How We Decide
This interesting short video clip discusses how we make decisions. How rational are you?
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The Convenience of Conventional Wisdom
When decision makers, people, press, stock analysts and armchair analysts (I will include myself here) are all used to seeing decisions being made one way, any time they are asked to make or see a decision being made the other way their immed
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Listen to your ‘gut’
The advantage of a startup is the speed with which decisions can be made, however this is the downside as well. By nature everything is compressed and what takes six months or more in an enterprise organization takes six weeks, six days – or
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When data and decisions collide
Until recently, most of the decisions we were called on to make were based on hunches, insight and a little bit of data. Occasionally, a field like direct marketing would develop into something quite data-driven (“I don’t care if you like mailer o… carry on reading.
Conscious vs. unconscious thought in making complicated decisions | Science Codex
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icated_decisions When faced with a difficult decision, we try to come up with the best choice
by carefully considering all of the options, maybe even resorting to lists
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Dear Internet, What Should I Do With My Life?
So it’s come to this. “This” being Hunch.com, the website that “helps you make decisions and gets smarter the more you use it.” Whatever you’re strug
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In Praise of Non-conformity
The evidence that conformity has brought us nearly to economic and financial ruin is overwhelming. Yet people still do it. Why, since the benefits of making your own decisions and choosing your own path through life are both obvious and logical?… carry on reading.
It’s a startup, not a spreadsheet
Some people, when they start to realize the power of using data to inform their decisions, become obsessed with optimization. I think this idea is particularly appealing to those of us from an engineering background. B… carry on reading.
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