Tag: Decisions

At some level, I’d like to be able to trust myself in my decisions, but if I’m irrational, then I can’t do that. Luckily, I think there’s actually a lot that you and I can do about this. At some level, where you are right now is the result of all the decisions that you&rsq...

“I can’t absolutely recognize that they are agreeing with her circumstance over mine. I gave this occupation such vast years, and she chooses to stroll around and wreck everything for me,” I bestowed to my soul mate. Quite a long while back, when I was working the whole day at m...

In the days that I had to make many decisions, my energy fuels would fall off the cliff suddenly, and I’d find myself lying in bed in the middle of the day for no apparent reason. I thought something was wrong with me until I heard the term “Decision Fatigue” in one of the onlin...

Have you ever found yourself stuck in a situation where you were trying to solve a problem, but you couldn’t see the bigger picture? This is a common phenomenon in business, where motivated and engaged employees seek to solve the problem at hand, often without considering the larger context or...

Do you ever feel like you’re just going through the motions in meetings, passively nodding to ideas instead of speaking up? Or you may dread the endless debates that never reach a clear decision. It doesn’t have to be that way. A simple technique called “Fist to Five” voti...

Early this year, I travelled to South America and went river rafting in Patagonia. It was beautiful. As we floated downriver, the sun began its golden descent towards the distant volcano. Its deep purple silhouette rising into focus. There were crisscrossing conversations as our guide pointed out be...

When we’re handling big data, efficiently storing it is an important task. If we’re not careful, we could encounter issues like slow query performance, increased storage costs, difficult data management, poor scalability, and more. The way data is laid out across storage systems directly...

It was 2015. In one of his last pre-election speeches, Alexis Tsipras, former star of the Greek and European left and President of the anti-austerity coalition Syriza, quoted the local anti-fascist rebel Manolis Glezos in the capital of Crete, the largest island of Greece, Iraklio: “Do you ...

InAncient Roman culture, omens held a place of paramount importance, guiding decisions both big and small. Romans believed that gods communicated through signs in nature, dreams, and various other forms. This deep-seated belief in omens influenced every aspect of Roman life, from the battlefield to ...

We were just minutes from descent to Australian soil when the pilot came over the audio to make an announcement. “Sorry folks, we’re going to have to circle for a while — all air traffic into Sydney is on hold due to a lightning storm.” We ended up circling to the north...

Let’s pretend for a second that Machine Learning models are real human beings: none of them is perfect (besides you, of course). Some models could be too anxious, someone too jealous, someone too arrogant. The real magic happens when you fall in love with someone that is able to s...