Category: Nerdy

How would you characterize your best personal decisions? Think about it. What is coming to your mind? Are you thinking about producing results, personal growth, or a great outcome? Are you thinking about a more balanced living as a result? Are you thinking about fast decisions, in which you joyfully skipped the agonizing pain of analyzing […]
Photo courtesy Jamie Frith available under the Creative Commons license on Flickr. The series of posts on decision making: When are decisions consciously made? Rational decision making and the curse of dimensionality Emotional decision making and the Descartes’ error The key ingredient behind successful decision making Why best decisions are wrong and what to do […]
This is a follow-up for the post on rational decision making. And first, a boring but important bit: “Most theories of choice assume that decisions derive from an assessment of the future outcomes of various options and alternatives through some type of cost-benefit analyses. The influence of emotions on decision-making is largely ignored. The studies […]
This is a guest post by my friend Konstantin from www.lifesucks.org. I’m a heavy laptop user. I use my laptop for accessing the internet, desktop publishing, making websites, communicating with people overseas and many other important tasks. Up until last year, I was a Windows user, and, like most people who use personal computers, I […]
How come you have applied the best strategies to make the best decision, yet the solution you arrived at did not stand against the expectations? How come you have spent so much time on analyzing the data, but the solution did not bring the happiness you were after? How come you have dissected the problem […]