Friction is the path to good decisions

Last year we read Farsighted which looked at how we make good decisions. One of the biggest takeaways was that good decisions come from diverse groups. Groups that don't agree on some things, but are trying to get to a similar end goal. It showed us that one of the worst ways to make decisions was to have a homogenous group because we look for a friction-free way to consensus and don't explore all the possibilities. These groups assume they're right, in part because they're never faced with other points of view that would cause them to question their ideas. Stolzoff spends the send section of his book examining the affects of hubris on our decisions and beliefs citing many of the same things that were covered in Farsighted. If we want to be able to deal with uncertainty, we need to allow room for different ideas and not discount them immediately. We need to celebrate people that admit mistakes1 instead of punishing them as flip-floppers2. If there is one thing the replication crisis…

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