The Science of Subjectivity
“An action taken with positive thoughts will never produce negative results.” ― Debasish Mridha Risk, and its acceptable level, turn on internal and external circumstances, both known and unknown. Let’s take a simple, if somewhat stylized, example to illustrate. Suppose someone presents to you the following opportunity. There are a thousand sealed boxes all of them identical […]
On Paralanguage and Metamessage
Lawyers have to persuade but before they can they have to communicate; that is, they have to teach. Effective lawyering is not typically expressed as a form of teaching, but, in many respects, it is: the best lawyers can in some sense be looked at as simply the most effective teachers. They make the complex […]
Overcoming Optimism Bias
Complex tasks require sustained attention and coordination of skills over long periods of time. Distraction and inattention, even momentarily, can result in accidents. Over-the-road commercial truck drivers, for example, have explicit dictates in their CDL Manuals to avoid distractions while driving. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations impose similar requirements. And in 2011, the US […]
