by Ela | Oct 21, 2011 | Being, Consciousness, How-to, Learning, Nerdy, Patterns, Reflection
Photo credit Fe Langdon, available on Flickr under Creative Commons. How we say One of the major obstacles in your development is to perceive yourself as a static thing. Similarly, one of the most limiting ways for a solution-focus is to look at a situation or problem...
by Ela | Sep 23, 2011 | Decisions, How-to, Nerdy, Pattern recognition, Patterns
Photo courtesy Jamie Frith available under the Creative Commons license on Flickr. The series of posts on decision making: When are decisions consciously made? Rational decision making and the curse of dimensionality Emotional decision making and the Descartes’ error...
by Ela | Sep 15, 2011 | Decisions, Learning, Pattern recognition, Patterns, Performance
Are you the one who despises intuition, or are you the one who respects it? Are you the one who thinks intuition is a word coined to cover the criterion-free and otherwise arbitrary decisions? Are you the one who neglects the power of intuition in favor of a...
by Ela | Sep 9, 2011 | Decisions, Learning, Nerdy, Pattern recognition, Patterns, Performance
This is a follow-up for the post on rational decision making. And first, a boring but important bit: “Most theories of choice assume that decisions derive from an assessment of the future outcomes of various options and alternatives through some type of...
by Ela | Jul 25, 2011 | Music, Patterns, Reflection
I am nostalgic at times and it is happening right now. I observe how fast our world changes. Daily. I observe how stability is an illusion. Daily. I observe how fickle our economy is. Daily. Time of transformation This all reminds me about the transformation years...
by Ela | Jul 21, 2011 | Patterns
This is a guest post by my inspiring friend Bob. In the previous post “Is Mac better than PC?” Ela describes her choice for a Mac over a PC and states that this has been “one of my best decisions in life”. Such remarks can be heard more...