At Norwescon today

Apr 16, 2006 00:50

Lots of fun for me -- the GOH is Lois McMaster Bujold, one of my favorite authors. I got a book signed, heard some of her next book, and even listened to some filk. TheGreat and Moneybags came home today, and TheGreat went back to the con with me in the evening to play some Laser tag. Much fun was had by all.

I recently finished Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (2005), so I kept evaluating the quality of all my snap judgments. His idea is that we make a lot of decisions by thin slicing information -- grabbing just a bit and making judgment calls. The quality of these decisions various greatly depending on how expert we are in the area we are evaluating, but often we have no idea how accurate we are -- I might have a lot of confidence in a spot judgment, but really have no idea what is going on. I was doing a lot of new things this weekend, so I kept stepping back and thinking about how I making decisions and whether I could trust my calls.

Except when I got too busy having fun to worry about it, of course. I'm a lousy laser tag player and can't figure out who is on my team to save their life, but it sure is fun to pull that trigger. Zap!
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