#DecisionMaking

Manish AhujaMrEmogical
2025-07-16

Especially in business and in life.

Progress > Perfection.

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Keep Going Keep Growing ๐Ÿš€

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2025-07-15

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

Thatโ€™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.

๐ŸŽฐ I explain what it is, why it matters, and how AI systems handle it.

:blobcoffee: Full article here: towardsdatascience.com/simple-

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

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-07-15

๐Ÿค– inevitabilism: the ultimate excuse for your lack of decision-making skills. ๐ŸŽฏ Tom Renner serves up 479 words of existential dread, cleverly disguised as a debate tutorial. Spoiler: AI isn't stealing your freedom, your own is. ๐Ÿ˜‚
tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevit

Saad โœ…saad1inc
2025-07-12

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

๐Ÿง  Discipline makes the difference.

2025-07-11

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.

fastcompany.com/91364169/how-t #DecisionMaking #Leadership #ProblemSolving #Mindset #Uncertainty #RiskManagement

Itamar Medeirosdesignative
2025-07-09

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. Hereโ€™s how I use it in UX strategy.

designative.info/2025/07/09/bo

A picture of the author of this post holding the book โ€œThe Decision Bookโ€ in front of his face.
Saad โœ…saad1inc
2025-07-09

The hardest part of business isnโ€™t growth.
Itโ€™s filtering out distractions masquerading as โ€œopportunities.โ€
โ†’ Stay with the proven
โ†’ Say no more often
โ†’ Protect your momentum

๐Ÿ”’ Focus is a growth moat.

earthlingappassionato
2025-07-09

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.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007

@bookstodon




It offers a uniquely multidisciplinary perspective, integrating insights from neuroscience, economics, public policy, and other fields to provide a comprehensive understanding of how we make choices in both personal and professional contexts.
Designed for researchers, professionals, instructors, and students interested in decision science, this book delves into several key areas. It explores the cognitive biases and heuristics that influence our decisions. The book also examines the role of emotions and intuition in decision-making. Additionally, it investigates the neuroscience behind information processing and judgment. It also provides strategies we can use to make better decisions in real-world settings. The chapters, written by experts in the field, cover a wide range of topics ranging from the foundations of decision theory to the latest research on the neural bases of decision-making, providing readers with a rich understanding of the subject.
Through its multidisciplinary approach and emphasis on practical applications, this volume offers readers valuable insights and tools for enhancing their own decision-making skills. Whether you are a researcher studying decision-making processes, a professional looking to make better judgments in important situations, or an instructor teaching decision science, this book provides a comprehensive and accessible resource that will deepen your understanding of this critical area of human behavior.
Shivaji Sharmashivajisharma2022
2025-07-09

How Career Counselling Empowers Students

growthcentre.org/career-counse

Career counselling isn't just adviceโ€”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.

How Career Counselling Empowers Students
2025-07-08

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 plos.io/4eDPERq

At the crossroads of risk and certainty: an individual deliberates between a safe game of โ‚น100 versus a risky game of โ‚น1 to โ‚น1000. How does the brain process such reward expectations and drive this individual's attention and choice? The image shows cartoon with a confused person standing in front of two fruit machines, one labelled โ€œFixed, modest reward gameโ€ and one โ€œVariable, extreme reward game.โ€ Image credit: Ankita Sengupta.
The Real Rileystherealrileys
2025-07-07

Before You Buy ANYTHING: How to Make a Smart Decision Step-by-Step

youtu.be/22nyCfnCbVE

Brenda Walshbrenda_walsh
2025-07-07

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

Brenda Walshbrenda_walsh
2025-07-07

"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

2025-07-07

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. 

On the Trail (1889) by Winslow Homer. Original from The National Gallery of Art. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.

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 youโ€™re microscopic, the territory is the map; at human scale, we externalise those cues as landmarksโ€”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 donโ€™t. We canโ€™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 everyoneโ€™s guiding landmarks may be made of semi-solid smoke.

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

2Freas, Cody A., and Ken Cheng. โ€œThe Basis of Navigation Across Species.โ€ Annual Review of Psychology 73, no. 1 (January 4, 2022): 217โ€“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

๐ŸŒŽ Experiencia interdimensionalexperiencia@partidopirata.com.ar
2025-07-04

New IQ research shows why smarter people make better decisions ๐Ÿง ๐Ÿ“Š. People with higher IQ make more realistic predictions ๐Ÿ”, which supports better decision-making ๐Ÿค” and lead to improved life outcomes ๐ŸŒŸ. People with low IQ make forecasting errors that are more than twice as inaccurate as those with high IQ ๐Ÿ“‰.

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)

Shibaprasad Bhattacharyashibaprasad@mstdn.party
2025-07-04

Iโ€™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

Fabrizio Musacchiopixeltracker@sigmoid.social
2025-07-03

๐Ÿง โœจ Just published โ€“ โ€œThe dynamics and geometry of choice in the premotor #cortexโ€ by Genkin etโ€ฏ al. shows how the #brain encodes #decisions. Using single-trial #NeuralRecordings, they model #decisionmaking as 1D trajectories on a high-dimensional #manifold.

Key findings:
๐Ÿ‘‰ Diverse tuning curves reflect one latent decision variable
๐Ÿ‘‰ Dynamics follow an attractor
๐Ÿ‘‰ Geometry links sensory & cognitive coding

โœ๏ธ nature.com/articles/s41586-025
๐Ÿ’ป github.com/engellab/neuralflow

#Neuroscience #CompNeuro

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