This attracted me because I was trained to make decisions. And it was on the job training. The best kind. I got to make decisions and see the result.
The Decision making stuff doesn’t start until about 22:30 into the video. But you have to watch the intro (and I didn’t start with the first example to keep things shorter) to get a grasp of the subject from Scott’s point of view. The discussion ends about 44 minutes in.
The one thing he leaves out is postmortems. In the military they are called “after action reports”. That is where you review what was done and see if you can come up with places where you could have done better. That is one way to learn from situations where there is no A B test. Where you can’t run the experiment again.
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about military decision making. gen. westmoreland announced during the vietnam war that he would kill 10 vietnamese for every american draftee killed. when told by newsmen about gen. westmorelands statement gen go nva cdr. said sounds like a fair trade to me! before iraq war pentagon showed the film battle of lagers to top brass but dick cheney made the decision that dubya not see it and get scared.
I am not a low information voter, and I think the media are low information media mostly. . Including those who agree with me.
I too am military. . .The thing isn’t that we are always right, but that we make decisions knowing the potential result. Scots point, and I think Simons, is that we do not make big decisions to satisfy our own desires, but knowing that they might affect others, and taking that into account.
(Marine Corps, nerd Tech, 2881/5911/6331, and a GORGEOUS specimen of a man 20 years ago, just ask my wife.)
there is a book called why the experts are always wrong using the quote from gen. sedgewick. come on boys they can’t hit the broadside of a … quote. I tried finding the book on yahoo but couldn’t. if you can find it it explains why experts are always wrong.