Choices. There appear to be many kinds of choices - Good choices. Bad choices. No choices. But are there really different kinds?

The overall thread I seem to be following today is about reframing.

I subscribe to Ozan Varol’s newsletter, and yesterday, he had a profound message that I think I will find ways to incorporate into my personal and business life. He said, “Instead of asking ‘What do you...

Kahneman talks about two selves in how we experience the world—the experiencing self (essentially the “being present” self) and the remembering self (essentially the “living in the past” self). 

Damien and I just had a most interesting philosophical conversation about knowledge. 

We talked about something random, and he said (jokingly), “Everybody knows that.” 

It got me thinking: is there any universal knowledge that “everybody” actually knows?

After much thought...

Enhancing Decision-Making with The 6 Thinking Hats

About a year ago, Damien found Edward de Bono’s work on The 6 Thinking Hats for decision-making strategy. We implemented our own process within the business and have found it very useful when making big decisions (even for...

The Influence of Social Proof

The thread I seem to be following today concerns how we are influenced by social proof and how illogical we are as a species.

A friend mentioned that her annual local stream cleanup happened yesterday, and the woman who organized it stacked...

Understanding the Fourfold Pattern

The Fourfold Pattern in Thinking Fast and Slow really brought the last few chapters together nicely. It organizes the high probability (certainty effect) and low probability (possibility effect) with gains and losses.