Sometimes we are faced with a decision which is important and non-trivial. What hard decisions have you made in the past? Do you have any coming up? Do you have any techniques and strategies for making hard, real-world decisions?
For me right now a hard decision is which direction to take my career, with grad school being an option. I'd like to talk about that a bit, but other examples too, with the emphasis being on general-purpose techniques that can be applied to a wide range of decision-making problems.
Things to consider:
How do you get yourself in the right decision-making mindframe?
How do you get a handle on what your options actually are, and make sure you're considering all of them?
How do you translate your goals and values into utility, in order to compare options? Or do you not do it that way?
How do you make sure your model of the decision and its consequences squares with reality?
Discussion article for the meetup : Toronto: making hard decisions
WHEN: 20 November 2014 07:00:00PM (-0500)
WHERE: Toronto
See [http://www.meetup.com/Less-Wrong-Toronto/] for the exact location.
Sometimes we are faced with a decision which is important and non-trivial. What hard decisions have you made in the past? Do you have any coming up? Do you have any techniques and strategies for making hard, real-world decisions?
For me right now a hard decision is which direction to take my career, with grad school being an option. I'd like to talk about that a bit, but other examples too, with the emphasis being on general-purpose techniques that can be applied to a wide range of decision-making problems.
Things to consider:
Discussion article for the meetup : Toronto: making hard decisions