Keep Your Eye on the Ball!!!
Here's your opportunity to test your decision-making skills with a history-making decision that helped determine why you're reading this blog in English rather than in German.read more
View ArticleBe Open to Failure
One of the more pernicious misconceptions is that the chances of success are increased if one never considers the possibility of failure. This theme often surfaces in an interview with an...
View ArticleThe Mouths of Babes
There is a saying to that out of the mouths of babes comes wisdom. I'm not sure about that, but children are well aware of a couple of the most important principles of decision theory - at least on an...
View ArticleDo We Make Decisions, or Do Our Decisions Make Us?
I met Dick at a party some two decades ago, and we became fast friends, motivated in part by the fact that we are both tennis addicts. We play several times a week, and often discuss tennis - and...
View ArticleBalancing Love and Career
All your life you have been a brilliant student, and at the age of 25, you have acquired what every parent wants for their son: a medical degree. You have spent over a year doing research, and have...
View ArticleThe Calculus of Caution
The great American humorist Mark Twain certainly spoke for me when he said, "The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner." He certainly...
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