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Why It’s Not Possible to Make Wrong Decisions, or How to Not Make Wrong Decisions

Filed under: Black Sheep — Cynthia Yin at 1:35 pm on Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Thinking out loud about a simple trick I learned to prevent myself from making wrong decisions. I don’t think there are such things as wrong decisions. There are definitely bad decisions, but there aren’t any wrong decisions. Making a “wrong decision” suggests that we could go back in time and fix the decision because it […]

The Major Question

Filed under: Black Sheep,School — Cynthia Yin at 1:36 pm on Friday, July 26, 2013

Something I wrote in late March/early April: It’s the cursed (or blessed? depending on how you look at it?) question every student asks him or herself. For most, it starts some time in high school. For a few, it may have started even before then. For some, it drags itself out for years before finally […]