Rational Decisions

Keith Stanovich provides examples of dysrationalia , a term he coined to describe smart people who make irrational decisions.

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Reversible Decisions

Farnum Street has a short essay on the difference between reversible and irreverible decisions . Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, considers this an important criteria in determining the amount of analysis a decision requires.

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"Can We Go Back to Square One?"

Farnam Street quotes Jeff Bezos suggesting that irreversible decisions require more deliberation than those that can be reversed.

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Executive Motivation

Paul Glen comments that sometimes the workers do not understand the motivation of the executives/leaders who possess more information.

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Logical Fallacies

Don Pepper reviews major logical fallacies : overconfidence, narrow framing, short-term emotion, and confirmation bias - all of which can impair how we handle decision-making.

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Decision Making Apps

Doug Aamoth shares 5 decision making apps .

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Memory and Making Decisions

Mark McGraw provides an example of memory steering decision making .

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Baydin Software Offers Email Tools

Heather Whitney reports about using Boomerang to schedule email transmissions. She notes that Boomerang, a product of Baydin Software, allows reminders to be emailed even when the sender is far from any Internet connectivity.

I notice that Baydin Software also has an email clearing tool called The Email Game. Baydin introduces a timer which is designed to make the Gmail or Outlook user attempt to "beat the clock" in taking action on email.

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