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- [ ] How to win friends and influence people | ||
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Spotify | ||
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- [ ] [how-to-decide-simple-tools-for-making-better-choices](book-review/how-to-decide-simple-tools-for-making-better-choices.md) | ||
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title: "How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices" | ||
description: Choose wisely, and enjoy the ride. | ||
date: 2023-12-28 | ||
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- book review | ||
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![how-to-decide](img/how-to-decide.jpg){.preview-image} | ||
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What is my best decision? Worst? | ||
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- resulting: focusing on outcomes, rather than expected values and doing the best | ||
- to improve decision making: focus on what the process was for decision making. Information gathering. Question asking. | ||
- Remember choosing to leave Novi, wondering if someone was going to be a millionaire in my absence. Couldn't help but feel I was leaving money on the table by leaving. But I decided to leave to pursue what I was passionate about, and regardless that Novi went under I felt that was the right call as I finished my masters. | ||
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- make a knowledge tracker. Details on decisions. Info known before/after. Make this going forward | ||
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Decision process: | ||
- where do you want to go? | ||
- What are all the ways to get there? | ||
- By taking X choice, what are other ways it could go? What's the probability? |
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title: Decisions are Like Hopping on a River Raft | ||
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Reading [how-to-decide-simple-tools-for-making-better-choices](../book-review/how-to-decide-simple-tools-for-making-better-choices.md) and thinking about decisions. | ||
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I like to think of decisions as rivers. | ||
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Like decisions, all rivers lead somewhere. Where is your river heading? | ||
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The decision is which river to get on in your little boat. You can only envision the destination. | ||
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Being a high school English teacher is a decision. Where will that life take me after 5/10/20 years? Is that appealing? Only I can choose. | ||
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This thinking process is the decision choice. The rest is up to luck. |
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title: Flipping the coins of life | ||
description: Are you right just because you got heads? | ||
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Assume you flip a coin 5 times and get heads 5 times. You're going pretty well! | ||
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But are you? | ||
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A normal coin has 50% chance of heads. Chances of 5 heads in a row is ~3/100. It's not nothing. But over time this will average to 50%, if you flip 10000 times. | ||
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Decisions are rarely black and whites despite how we choice to say "that was a bad decision". The outcome doesn't determine the quality of the decision. | ||
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You chose to flip a coin, and not roll a dice. You didn't roll a 32 sided die either. | ||
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Focus on choice that maximize probability. This is the decision. | ||
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- [how-to-decide-simple-tools-for-making-better-choices](../book-review/how-to-decide-simple-tools-for-making-better-choices.md) | ||
- [decisions-are-rivers](decisions-are-rivers.md) |
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title: Leaving my Startup was the Right Decision | ||
description: But not because of the outcome. | ||
date: 2023-12-28 | ||
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- storytelling | ||
- hindsight | ||
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I remember in 2014 deciding whether to leave my startuo after having just helped raise a seed round and finish a highly successful kickstarter. It was either: move with the team to Seattle or stay and finish my Master's degree. My married cofounder even suggested "you could find your wife here!" | ||
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I imagined every scenario in my anxiety. I specifically imagined all of my partners making $1M dollars or something. I felt like the decision to leave was a decision to not be a millionaire. | ||
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I emotionally came to terms with that possibility. And suddenly, that possible outcome had no allure to me anymore. | ||
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I chose to finish my degree and pursue a career in data science. I also luckily found my wife *not* in Seattle just a few weeks later. | ||
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I've made this choice a few times in my life: go with the direction I want to go at that time. To hop on the right [river](decisions-are-rivers.md). | ||
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This was the right decision, because I came to terms with alternate realties and still chose what aligned with my goals. | ||
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You never know what happens when you [flip-a-coin](flip-a-coin.md). But you can choose whether to flip. | ||
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- [how-to-decide-simple-tools-for-making-better-choices](../book-review/how-to-decide-simple-tools-for-making-better-choices.md) | ||
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