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  • K

    Averse to one metric judgments?

    kenofearth•...
    Granted, but when ideas conflict, evidence is partial, and stakes are real; when under uncertainties, instabilities, time and performance imperative pressures, especially affecting from narrowly scoped and domained interests with power, clarities so often have stowaway costs,...
    ethics
    psychology
    sociology
    decision making
    policy analysis
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  • ClarkRC•...

    When the Mind Rewrites Reality How Bias Snowballs Grow Into Illusions

    We like to think we see the world clearly, like we are noticing what is really happening. But a lot of the time our minds are quietly shaping what we notice and what we ignore....
    psychology
    cognitive science
    decision making
    behavioral science
    human perception
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  • UpTrust Admin avatar

    AMA with Rob Miles on AI Safety. Wednesday, 2/4 at 1:00pm CT

    AISafety.info founder has spent years telling the world about risk posed by strong AI.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tYqqb6AjTM
    JulieI•...
    Asking more and better questions of the AI too. Most will tell you that they 'don't know' how they arrive at some conclusion or provide an opinion. That is helpful to me as a user. Keeps things in perspective....
    decision making
    artificial intelligence
    user experience
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  • ClarkRC•...

    Bad Decisions Start with Bad Perception

    Bad Decisions Start with Bad Perception Most failures in judgment don’t begin with bad decisions. They begin with distorted perception. Before we talk about awareness, decision-making, or action, we have to talk about what’s happening before all of that — what we notice, what we...
    decision making
    behavioral science
    cognitive psychology
    stress management
    perception
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  • N

    Who am I? Great to meet everyone here!

    I wanted to take a moment to to let you all know a bit about myself.

    I am an entrepreneur that wears a lot of hats. I am a Realtor, insurance agent, content creator on Twitch and YouTube, and professional dungeon master. 

    I am so looking forward to connecting with you all here. Let’s grow together!

    Nay_Tin•...
    100% it has given me an interesting viewpoint that I take onto sales. Being a DM taught me to anticipate choices and be able to think on the fly in response....
    decision making
    sales
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  • N

    Who am I? Great to meet everyone here!

    I wanted to take a moment to to let you all know a bit about myself.

    I am an entrepreneur that wears a lot of hats. I am a Realtor, insurance agent, content creator on Twitch and YouTube, and professional dungeon master. 

    I am so looking forward to connecting with you all here. Let’s grow together!

    jordanSA•...
    looking forward to connecting here too! What a cool mix of hats. I'm curious if you feel like that range gives you any unique insight into how humans interact and make decisions....
    decision making
    human interaction
    game mastering
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  • Hannah Aline Taylor avatar

    A Future I Love Runs On . The Timeless Technology of Right Relationship, leveraging independence to serve and increase interdependence fueled by mutual desire, alignment, and enjoyment.

    Throughout human history, survival needs have compelled relational compromise. We live to the standards of others, or we die alone. We compromise ourselves, or we ask that others compromise, and we control or be controlled, all in order to have some semblance of our preferences met, some farce of belonging, some "form" of relationship.

    As abundance has flooded our material world, as life has gotten easier, we've created distance in order to experience freedom from social constraints. We have used the technology of independence in the worst possible way--to live independently.

    The future I love is one in which we leverage our ability to be independent and self-sufficient to draw us into close and voluntary low-stakes relationships with many other human beings. 

    No longer are our choices to go it alone or compromise our authenticity to fit in. The networking of the world means that there is somewhere our authenticity will be welcome and we can find it and go to there within our lifetimes. This is unprecedented freedom, which shows very clearly in the way we don't have any idea what to do about it. 

    I go to "community" homes and notice that everyone has their own car, shops for their own food, and makes their own individual meals. This is the greatest expression, for me of unconditional poverty in community form. Conditionally, wealth is present. Regardless of the conditional wealth, individualist practices can keep us in poverty. 

    In the future I love, we have unconditional wealth, the wealth of interdependence with aligned individuals, the wealth of relational harmony, the wealth of contentment in the now moment. 

    And it's not so far-fetched, it's not so futuristic. I have it here now. 

    #futureyoulove

     

     

    blasomenessphemy•...
    I think one aspect of ease is, this future you're pointing at wants us "all in". It doesn't seem to gel well with any amount of "one foot out the door". I think, "but what will I lose?" when I stay on the fence....
    personal development
    psychology
    decision making
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  • jordanSA•...

    "You know, there are 13 ways of doing anything. 11 of them will work. Just pick one and do it.”

    Dennis Hightower, who at the time was head of Disney International. He asked me why I wasn’t doing something, and I responded by explaining the pros and cons of two different ways of doing it. Thoughtfully, he replied “You know, there are 13 ways of doing anything....
    decision making
    leadership
    business strategy
    startups
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  • Arun avatar

    What are your secret internal moves, your cues? I'm eternally curious about how we navigate our worlds, and the tricks, jumps, hops, and skips we use.

    Sports coaches have cues for all kinds of things. "Follow through" in golf, tennis, and throwing generally. "Chest up, hips back, knees out" for a back squat. "Light feet" or "quick feet" for agility training. 

    These cues aren't attempting to be accurate descriptions of the world from a physics point of view. They're an attitude/orientation that helps a human do a thing a little better.

    My contention: we each are an entire compendium of little skill orientations that we use all the time. But because they're second nature and interior, they're funcionally invisible and don't often get shared or talked about.

    Wouldn't it be neat if we talked about them?

    Some examples from me:

    • "Can I do this with less effort?" Physically, this applies to anything. Sitting, pooping, walking, standing, reading. It's an immediate invitation into my body and more relaxation. There is often habitual extraneous muscular/mental/emotional tension in the system.
    • If I'm feeling small, stuck, contracted, tense – it can often help to "get as big as the room". It's not something to really think about or analyze too much. Just… become as big as the room. When I do so, there's often more space for the knotted stuff to just be and/or move. This also works great even when things are good.
    • I don't have a convenient handle for this one, but it's something like: "fall into wonder as you observe (from within) your body just doing simple things". Doing the dishes or making coffee could be a chore – or I can switch into looking through this lens and just be astonished at how intricate and skillful the dance of it all is. There's no way I could thinkmanage it all, and yet somehow it all happens anyway.

    So what are your cues? Nothing is too simple, silly, or obvious.

     

    david•...
    I have a couple of key orientations: "What are my load-bearing assumptions?" This one is a question that gets me reflecting on my own internal "too big to fail" moments....
    personal development
    psychology
    decision making
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  • Fooljeff avatar

    When you take one path. When you take one path, all other paths die and are left behind.

    Such is the weight of all our choices.

    But I'm not good at letting things die. I keep going back and dragging half-alive corpses around. Abomination!

    You stink of the dead. Mark your endings and grieve them, foul beast!

    nat•...
    Sometimes when I feel really unsure about which path to take, like should I invest in a program now or not, I'll tune into each path to notice which one feels lighter......
    personal development
    self reflection
    decision making
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  • J

    Creative thinking vs winning an argument. Creative thinking needs to be taught and valued as highly as smart thinking, right thinking, and ethical thinking.  

    I wonder if we've been trained - consciously and unconsciously - to converse in formats that can be intimidating and arguable ... inviting responses that are judging, which can then be judged back and forth:  smart or stupid, right or wrong, ethical or corrupt ... that binary thing we do.  I propose that this creates anxiety and intimidates creative brainstorming, mutually respectful musing, generous listening, genuine questioning, seeking connection and curious questions?  

    I can be as guilty as the next person - fishing for affirmation by winning a point in conversation ...   

    #DeepTakes

    peteSA•...
    I think I agree with the spirit of what you're saying. I just want to add that it's possible to frame creative thinking as the "explore" side of the explore/exploit dynamic. And by its nature, exploring is going to appear less worthwhile than exploiting by most metrics....
    psychology
    decision making
    business strategy
    creative thinking
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  • S

    Listening to your intuition . I’ve been reflecting about following your intuition and also about surrender for a while now. But when you have lived mostly thinking through things and trying to figure out what’s best for you, it can be tricky.

    Here are a few ways that I’ve found helpful so far -
    1) Is doing /not doing something driven by fear or love/enthusiasm?
    2) Does doing/not doing something feel like resisting what wants to happen or does it feel like chasing after somehing that you think you should do or have?

    See if it is the path of love & enthusiasm.

    But today, I happened to re-watch the movie The Celestine Prophecy (It is based on a novel about a main character who discovers a series of spiritual insights in an ancient manuscript in Peru). I found that this particular insight regarding intuition stood out for me.

    Insight 6 -
    In pursuit of this mission we can discover an inner intuition that shows us where to go and what to do, and if we make only positive interpretations, brings a flow of coincidences that opens the doors for our mission to unfold

    (The mission here refers to our particular role in helping humanity evolve which is revealed through/as inner guidance once we are connected to our higher-self/awareness)

    The bit about make only positive interpretations points to completely trusting that nothing can ever go wrong which is very interesting. If you are in 100% trust, and don’t have a preference of an outcome at all, you are free to play with intuition now. :)

    Would love to hear about what listening to your intuition and inner guidance looks and feels like for you!

    jordanSAinreimagining social media with nithya shanti•...

    I agree. For me it’s easier to listen to my intuition when it says go do something hard than to listen when my intuition tells me not to go down a path that seems like it’s going to be great.

    psychology
    decision making
    self-help
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  • dara_like_sara avatar

    90 day fiance. Coming clean- I love 90 day fiance. Does anyone else watch it?

    TV like this is really helps me turn off my brain. 😅

    The season that’s on right now is Before the 90 Days

    dara_like_saraSA•...

    give me some so i can more accurately discern how to use my trust

    psychology
    cognitive science
    decision making
    self-help
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  • xander avatar

    I don't see any of my posts. The main feed excludes my comments and posts, anybody else?

    brianSA•...

    yes this seems important

    decision making
    general communication
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  • R

    Navigating Buying or Walking. For those of you who are good at saving your money. 💰 What inspires you to not buy? 

    Say you’re in a store or online and you see something cool. What do you do? What are your criteria for buying or walking away? 

    Asking because while I love knowing money is being put away, I also love to shop. It can be as simple as, I’m in Manchester (like I am right now) and want to buy something unique that I can’t buy at home. Or I don’t have a something in that color, fabric or design. I don’t need it. I just like it and will enjoy it.  

    How do you navigate this? What’s your approach?

    annabeth•...
    It’s super helpful to me to create a structure of rules for myself to obey in the moment and upgrade later if needed. For example, I used to buy way too much clothing at thrift stores because why not it’s so cheap....
    personal development
    decision making
    fashion
    minimalism
    shopping habits
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  • R

    Navigating Buying or Walking. For those of you who are good at saving your money. 💰 What inspires you to not buy? 

    Say you’re in a store or online and you see something cool. What do you do? What are your criteria for buying or walking away? 

    Asking because while I love knowing money is being put away, I also love to shop. It can be as simple as, I’m in Manchester (like I am right now) and want to buy something unique that I can’t buy at home. Or I don’t have a something in that color, fabric or design. I don’t need it. I just like it and will enjoy it.  

    How do you navigate this? What’s your approach?

    xander•...
    When I’m shopping, whether I’d enjoy having something doesn’t really factor into whether I buy it, my thinking tends to be more pragmatic and I often delay (often unnecessarily) making the purchase....
    psychology
    personal finance
    decision making
    lifestyle
    consumer behavior
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  • renee•...

    Navigating Buying or Walking

    For those of you who are good at saving your money. 💰 What inspires you to not buy?  Say you’re in a store or online and you see something cool. What do you do? What are your criteria for buying or walking away?...
    psychology
    personal finance
    decision making
    consumer behavior
    shopping habits
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  • jordan avatar

    The Relateful Company should embrace more job titles. We’re under-appreciating orange.

    We’ve included the green critiques, like the classic:

    What gets measured gets managed — even when it’s pointless to measure and manage it, and even if it harms the purpose of the organisation to do so - V. F. Ridgway, 1956

    But we need to embrace more healthy competition, striving for excellence, even rankings.

    one way we can do this is to make more liberal use of titles, and brag on people. @Valerie Daniel is the MANAGING DIRECTOR, and we should have her listed as such in emails and things

    What else is healthy orange and how can we transclude it?
    What do we already do that is already healthy orange?

    jordanSA•...
    I’m leaning into disagreement here, please please please, tell me to stop if it’s not fun/generative! I can also easily imagine Person B who has accepted that we want to compress something into a number and it is likely to impact some folks, and given that then really want to do...
    psychology
    decision making
    innovation
    survey design
    playfulness in work
    sports analogies
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  • jordan avatar

    The Relateful Company should embrace more job titles. We’re under-appreciating orange.

    We’ve included the green critiques, like the classic:

    What gets measured gets managed — even when it’s pointless to measure and manage it, and even if it harms the purpose of the organisation to do so - V. F. Ridgway, 1956

    But we need to embrace more healthy competition, striving for excellence, even rankings.

    one way we can do this is to make more liberal use of titles, and brag on people. @Valerie Daniel is the MANAGING DIRECTOR, and we should have her listed as such in emails and things

    What else is healthy orange and how can we transclude it?
    What do we already do that is already healthy orange?

    jordanSA•...
    It seems really plausible to me that Ellyn and Thea have some knowledge/expertise here is being missed, and that when you have that knowledge it kind of ethically obliges to do certain straightforward things (and make a best effort on some others) in order to meet a minimal duty...
    ethics
    decision making
    communication
    organizational behavior
    leadership
    expertise utilization
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  • jordan avatar

    The Relateful Company should embrace more job titles. We’re under-appreciating orange.

    We’ve included the green critiques, like the classic:

    What gets measured gets managed — even when it’s pointless to measure and manage it, and even if it harms the purpose of the organisation to do so - V. F. Ridgway, 1956

    But we need to embrace more healthy competition, striving for excellence, even rankings.

    one way we can do this is to make more liberal use of titles, and brag on people. @Valerie Daniel is the MANAGING DIRECTOR, and we should have her listed as such in emails and things

    What else is healthy orange and how can we transclude it?
    What do we already do that is already healthy orange?

    daveSA•...
    Heh, I tried to be more concrete before but now I think I have the crux of the matter more boiled-down inside of myself, so I can try being more direct....
    ethics
    group dynamics
    decision making
    knowledge management
    specialization
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