Participatory voting is useful as a way to obtain early information; a “straw poll” provides public information about viewpoints in the room

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2016/04/participatory-voting-at-events-part-1-introduction

"Eventually, I stopped responding to my body. I was responding instead to a dashboard." — @Daojoan

This is a great point and very much translates to so many other parts of life/work where people stop listening to their "body" (or to their org/product/offering), outsourcing/numbing/dumbing down their decision making based on dashboards of collected metrics and then changing their behaviors on auto-pilot to improve said metrics — without ever asking themselves if the data collected actually represents answers to the right (or even important) questions...

Metrics always invite comparison & competition — on a global scale — often without considering our own subjective contexts/needs/limits/aims...

Does the number of copilot prompts per day on a CTO dashboard indicate a highly productive developer or does a big fat zero merely show a different approach to problem solving?

Does the lack of constant updates to a FLOSS project mean it's become neglected/unusable or does it simply indicate it reached a level of stability?

Likewise, does my product/app need constant UI changes/updates to "streamline" user experience (often without even consulting users) based on some "goal" metrics?

Am I seen as an unproductive FLOSS developer if my public commit log doesn't show daily updates? Do gaps indicate laziness, illness, deep thinking or work on other projects? Like gaps in a CV, will these gaps of activity data hinder future employment chances or would I even want to work with orgs who select on this criteria?

Is a hike only good/better because it exceeds X kilometers or Y elevation meters? How does one measure the stunning views or the quality of the company which shared that experience?

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why-i-gave-up-my-smartwatch/

Participatory voting is useful as a way to obtain early information; a “straw poll” provides public information about viewpoints in the room

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2016/04/participatory-voting-at-events-part-1-introduction

Liberating Structures include many useful ways to improve meetings. But one of the "simplest" offered — "1-2-4-all" — has a big problem.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2019/04/liberating-structures-1-2-4-all

#facilitation #LiberatingStructures #problem #1-2-4-All #DecisionMaking

Emotion and #DecisionMaking https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115043

The new version of the CPSA-A module SOFT is now live! With updates on topics like stakeholder management, decision-making, and communication in agile environments, this revision provides software architects with the essential skills for success.

Check out the updated curriculum and its benefits! https://t1p.de/ebaq2

New Essay

"The Intelligent AI Coin: A Thought Experiment"

Open Access here: https://seanfobbe.com/posts/2025-02-21_intelligent-ai-coin-thought-experiment/

Recent years have seen a concerning trend towards normalizing decisionmaking by Large Language Models (LLM), including in the adoption of legislation, the writing of judicial opinions and the routine administration of the rule of law. AI agents acting on behalf of human principals are supposed to lead us into a new age of productivity and convenience. The eloquence of AI-generated text and the narrative of super-human intelligence invite us to trust these systems more than we have trusted any human or algorithm ever before.

It is difficult to know whether a machine is actually intelligent because of problems with construct validity, plagiarism, reproducibility and transferability in AI benchmarks. Most people will either have to personally evaluate the usefulness of AI tools against the benchmark of their own lived experience or be forced to trust an expert.

To explain this conundrum I propose the Intelligent AI Coin Thought Experiment and discuss four objections: the restriction of agents to low-value decisions, making AI decisionmakers open source, adding a human-in-the-loop and the general limits of trust in human agents.

@histodons @politicalscience

Liberating Structures include many useful ways to improve meetings. But one of the "simplest" offered — "1-2-4-all" — has a big problem.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2019/04/problem-liberating-structures-1-2-4-all

#facilitation #LiberatingStructures #problem #1-2-4-All #GroupDecisions #DecisionMaking

Boosting decision-making skills: A new review article from researchers at the MPI for Human Development highlights the untapped potential of behavioral science for public policy
#Boosting #DecisionMaking #BehavioralScience
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/01/21/boosting-decision-making-skills

Animals make errors influenced by both perceptual and non-perceptual factors. Last study from Jeffrey Boucher and Yves Boubenec from our lab uses this to show that premotor #cortex tracks the perceived stimulus, not the one reported by behavior. Discover more in this @biorxivpreprint #preprint: https://tinyurl.com/mr3cchyp #Neuroscience #DecisionMaking #fUSi @neuroscience

You ever just sit and think about decisions you have to make in the future and wonder to yourself, are they drastic? Are they right? Are they wrong? Will they affect just you? Will they affect others? Will you regret the decision(s) you make, regardless if they feel right to you?

Surely that's not something that is just a me issue and that I'm struggling with currently.

“Currently, #Internet companies collect #data about where we go #online and use this data to present us with #ads (#advertisements) or other #content we may be interested in. Dr. #YaqubChaudhary and Dr #JonniePenn, working out of #Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence #LCFI, have identified startling new ways #AI is seeking to control our #DecisionMaking at the earliest possible steps.”

Neat and tidy. Finally a use for AI as a power guzzling bullshit machine for advertising. Don’t get, “grabbed by your Norbots”

#AI / #IntentionEconomy / #Techweenies <https://thedebrief.org/tech-companies-are-seeking-to-develop-ai-that-excels-at-flattering-and-manipulating-us/>

The Consensus Process fosters collaboration for The Highest Good of All, guiding One Community’s decisions. With a trained team and phased implementation, we aim to showcase consensus as a scalable, open-source model for groups of 200+, promoting unity, transparency, and sustainable decision-making.

https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/the-meaning-of-consensus/7hju88uhji9

I'll be on #sabbatical next academic year (August 2025 - June 2026), and will be able to go on research stays and visits to other labs.

I'm interested in topics related to #DecisionMaking, #Attention, #Teamwork, #HumanFactors, #AppliedPsychology VR/AR/UX, and #CognitivePsychology. Shared projects, data collections, analysis, theoretical work, preparing applications, learning methods or teaching could all be of interest. Or just networking!

Any ideas (or invitations!) for where I could go?

Participatory voting is useful as a way to obtain early information; a “straw poll” provides public information about viewpoints in the room

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2016/04/participatory-voting-at-events-part-1-introduction

In many organizations functional teams exist but are not able to make their own decisions because of a high level of technical dependencies, which require other teams’ approval for any change (tight coupling). In other cases, decisions have to go through a series of committees — privacy, design, launch cal — each with its own review process and decision schedule.

#ProductManagement #Process #DecisionMaking

https://itamargilad.com/decisions-part1/

"In a #consensus decision-making process, the decision and the buy-in land at the same time. Rather than making a decision and then getting everyone on board, you get everyone on board, at which point the decision is clear."

by Mandy Brown: https://everythingchanges.us/blog/consenting-to-decisions/