Especially in business and in life.

Progress > Perfection.

𝗣.𝗦: 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀

Keep Going Keep Growing 🚀

#DecisionMaking #Leadership #BusinessMindset #MrEmogical #ProgressOverPerfection #Entrepreneurship https://mastodon.social/@MrEmogical/114860919902184464

Do you always go to the same café? Or do you try something new?

That’s the exploration vs. exploitation dilemma: Decision under uncertainty.

Multi-armed bandits model exactly that.

And this dilemma shows up everywhere: Recommender systems, A/B tests, online ads, even in human psychology.

Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman called this one of the most fundamental cognitive patterns.

🎰 I explain what it is, why it matters, and how AI systems handle it.

:blobcoffee: Full article here: https://towardsdatascience.com/simple-guide-to-multi-armed-bandits-a-key-concept-before-reinforcement-learning/

#ReinforcementLearning #AI #CognitiveScience #Kahneman #Psychology #Behavior #DecisionMaking #Bandits #machinelearning #KI #Datascience #datascientist

🤖 #AI inevitabilism: the ultimate excuse for your lack of decision-making skills. 🎯 Tom Renner serves up 479 words of existential dread, cleverly disguised as a debate tutorial. Spoiler: AI isn't stealing your freedom, your own #indecisiveness is. 😂
https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/ #Inevitabilism #DecisionMaking #ExistentialDread #TomRenner #HackerNews #ngated

Most business problems are not marketing problems.
They’re decision problems.
→ Saying yes too often
→ Starting too many things
→ Avoiding hard choices
If you want clarity, make fewer, better decisions.

🧠 Discipline makes the difference.

#FounderClarity #DecisionMaking #BusinessFocus

How to make #gooddecisions in #uncertaintimes

A #cognitivescientist lays out a framework for #decisionmaking for the #unknowable future.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91364169/how-to-make-good-decisions-in-uncertain-times

In unpredictable times, having a clear decision-making process helps people navigate risk, reduce anxiety, and make choices they can stand by, even when outcomes are uncertain.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91364169/how-to-make-good-decisions-in-uncertain-times #DecisionMaking #Leadership #ProblemSolving #Mindset #Uncertainty #RiskManagement

Looking for a better way to think through complexity? The Decision Book is a toolkit of 50 models to help you facilitate, align, and reflect. Here’s how I use it in UX strategy. #DesignStrategy #DecisionMaking #Facilitation

https://www.designative.info/2025/07/09/book-review-the-decision-book-by-mikael-krogerus-roman-tschappeler/

The hardest part of business isn’t growth.
It’s filtering out distractions masquerading as “opportunities.”
→ Stay with the proven
→ Say no more often
→ Protect your momentum

🔒 Focus is a growth moat.

#BusinessGrowth #DecisionMaking #StrategicClarity

Decision-Making in Life and Work: Foundations, Strategies, and Current Neuroscience by Todd McElroy, 2025

This groundbreaking volume brings together leading researchers to explore the latest findings on the psychological and physiological factors that shape decision-making.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-88415-3

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#neuroscience
#DecisionMaking
#Springer

How Career Counselling Empowers Students

https://www.growthcentre.org/career-counselling-process/

Career counselling isn't just advice—it's a structured process that empowers students to make informed decisions. With expert assessments, one-on-one sessions, and actionable plans, you gain confidence and clarity. Whether you're in high school or college, counselling can help align your abilities and aspirations with the right opportunities.

#StudentCounselling #CareerEmpowerment #DecisionMaking #CareerHelp #GrowthCentre

The Art of Making the Right Decision https://buff.ly/R5F9JcL #conservatism #DecisionMaking #wisdom #culture

#Exercise #Addiction #Craving #DecisionMaking www.addictionpolicy.org/post/new-stu... #SharedFacts from #HealthScience

New Study Finds That Aerobic E...

Reward expectation modulates #attention & #DecisionMaking but are these mediated by common or distinct mechanisms? This study shows that spatial manipulation of #reward expectation modulates sensitivity, while choice-based manipulation affects decision making @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/4eDPERq

Before You Buy ANYTHING: How to Make a Smart Decision Step-by-Step #howto #decisionmaking #ministry

https://youtu.be/22nyCfnCbVE

Today's Audio Daily Devotional: God's Holy Word
Bible Texts:
- John 6:63
- Matthew 7:24
- Psalm 119:130
- Psalm 33:4
- John 15:7

#dailydevotional #devotional #bible #holyword #HolySpirit #guidance #direction #leader #decision #decisionmaking #prayer #biblestudy #quiettime

"Before making any decision, large or small, we should go to God's Word for guidance and allow the Holy Spirit to lead and direct. We can hold on to God's promises and claim them for our own." - Brenda Walsh

#quote #decision #decisionmaking #bible #holyword #guidance #direction

The Mind as Semi-Solid Smoke

This post continues the series on Socratic Thinking, turning the space-and-place lens inward to examine the mind itself. Human minds can be thought of as an imperfect place with the ability to create their own insta-places to navigate ambiguity. 

Exploration in any real or conceptual space needs navigational markers with sufficient meaning. Humans are biologically predisposed to seek out and use navigational markers. This tendency is rooted in our neural architecture, emerges early in life, and is shared with other animals, reflecting its deep evolutionary origins 1,2 .  Even the simplest of life performing chemotaxis uses the signal-field of food to navigate. 

When you’re microscopic, the territory is the map; at human scale, we externalise those cues as landmarks—then mirror the process inside our heads. Just as cells follow chemical gradients, our thoughts follow self-made landmarks, yet these landmarks are vaporous.

From the outside our mind is a single place, it is our identity. Probe closer and our identity is nebulous and dissolves the way a city dissolves into smaller and smaller places the closer you look. We use our identity to create the first stable place in the world and then use other places to navigate life. However, these places come from unreliable sources, our internal and external environments.  How do we know the places are even real, and do we have the knowledge to trust their reality? Well, we don’t. We can’t judge our mental landmarks false. Callard calls this normative self-blindness: the built-in refusal to saw off the branch we stand on.   

Normative self-blindness is a trick to gloss over details and keep moving. Insta-places are conjured from our experience and are treated as solid no matter how poorly they are tied down by actual knowledge. We can accept that a place was loosely formed in the past, an error, or is not yet well defined in the future, is unknown. However, in the moment, the places exist and we use them to see. 

Understanding and accepting that our minds work this way is a key tenet of Socratic Thinking. It makes adopting the posture of inquiry much easier. Socratic inquiry begins by admitting that everyone’s guiding landmarks may be made of semi-solid smoke.

1Chan, Edgar, Oliver Baumann, Mark A. Bellgrove, and Jason B. Mattingley. “From Objects to Landmarks: The Function of Visual Location Information in Spatial Navigation.” Frontiers in Psychology 3 (2012). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00304

2Freas, Cody A., and Ken Cheng. “The Basis of Navigation Across Species.” Annual Review of Psychology 73, no. 1 (January 4, 2022): 217–41. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-020821-111311.

#AgnesCallard #cognitiveBiases #cognitiveScience #criticalThinking #decisionMaking #epistemology #evolutionaryPsychology #humanPsychology #identity #introspection #mentalModels #metacognition #mindset #navigation #neuroscience #normativeSelfBlindness #personalDevelopment #philosophy #sensemaking #socraticThinking #spaceAndPlace

New IQ research shows why smarter people make better decisions 🧠📊. People with higher IQ make more realistic predictions 🔍, which supports better decision-making 🤔 and lead to improved life outcomes 🌟. People with low IQ make forecasting errors that are more than twice as inaccurate as those with high IQ 📉.

Read Full Article

#IQResearch #DecisionMaking #SmartChoices #CognitiveScience #LifeOutcomes https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/new-iq-research-shows-why-smarter-people-make-better-decisions/
Reenviado desde Science News
(https://t.me/experienciainterdimensional/8396)

I’ve come across several decision-making and org design frameworks, like DAI, RACI, RAPID, etc.

My biggest takeaway?

Fewer letters = less regulatory cholesterol = more autonomy.

I wish some management guru would just create a framework called "U" and be done with it.

#management #decisionmaking

🧠✨ Just published – “The dynamics and geometry of choice in the premotor #cortex” by Genkin et  al. shows how the #brain encodes #decisions. Using single-trial #NeuralRecordings, they model #decisionmaking as 1D trajectories on a high-dimensional #manifold.

Key findings:
👉 Diverse tuning curves reflect one latent decision variable
👉 Dynamics follow an attractor
👉 Geometry links sensory & cognitive coding

✍️ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09199-1
💻 https://github.com/engellab/neuralflow

#Neuroscience #CompNeuro