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Wikipedia Entry: decision-making

In psychology, decision-making (also spelled decision making and decisionmaking) is regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief or a course of action among several possible alternative options. It could be either rational or irrational. The decision-making process is a reasoning process based on assumptions of values, preferences and beliefs of the decision-maker.

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Only Individuals Making Quality Decisions Will Improve the World Robert M. Pirsig

My personal feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making Quality decisions and that’s all. God, I don’t want to have any more enthusiasm for big programs full of social planning for big masses of people that leave individual Quality out. These can be left alone for a while. There’s a place … | Robert M. Pirsig Continue reading Only Individuals Making Quality Decisions Will Improve the World Robert M. Pirsig

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The Trouble with Optimization in a Complex World What maximizing and minimizing get wrong in complex contexts

Business language often assumes the world is stable, measurable, and controllable. In complex contexts, words like maximize, minimize, and optimize quietly overclaim what can be known or achieved. A more honest approach treats decisions as hypotheses, focuses on direction rather than endpoints, and keeps learning open as situations change. Continue reading The Trouble with Optimization in a Complex World What maximizing and minimizing get wrong in complex contexts