On consensing…
Posted on February 7, 2010
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We live in a much faster-paced world today than our ancestors did, and we have to make decisions very quickly (something that, as it turns out, I really, really suck at… but less of that, and more about what I intended to write about in the first place).
We like to reduce decision-making to the equivalent of answering a multiple-choice questionnaire. Take ordering fastfood, or the way our voting systems work, for example (pick one: candidate A, B or C, etc). This has, as intended, taken out lots of hassle from choices we must make everyday. Read more
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