{"id":1147,"date":"2010-04-18T14:46:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T09:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2010-04-18T14:46:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T09:16:44","slug":"decision-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2010\/04\/decision-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Godin makes some interesting observations in his post on <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2010\/04\/are-you-rational.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rational vs Irrational decision making<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No one is rational all the time. In fact, somewhere along the way we made &#8216;irrational&#8217; into a bad word, but it shouldn&#8217;t be.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re running Adwords on Google, I hope you&#8217;re making rational decisions based on clickthrough and conversion&#8230; (But) Irrational passion is the key change agent of our economy. Faith and beauty and a desire to change things can&#8217;t be easily quantified, and we can&#8217;t live without them.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s room for both rational and irrational decision making, and I think we do best when we choose our path in advance instead of pretending to do one when we&#8217;re actually doing the other. The worst thing we can do is force one when we actually need the other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen this manifest countless times, and I couldn&#8217;t agree more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Godin makes some interesting observations in his post on Rational vs Irrational decision making: No one is rational all the time. In fact, somewhere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-work"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}