We take for granted our expertise in a known context. We respond effortlessly and adequately to most of what comes our way as it's all so known to us. Few surprises.
Then, a new school, and everything requires deliberation and thought.

A number of schools locally allowed shorts after boys at a particular secondary came into school wearing skirts during a heat wave & made national news (shorts were previously not part of the uniform policy)

Love this guy. His book, 'Alchemy', is fantastic.

There are a lot of assumptions being made here. Anyway, nice to have met you...👋

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These look 'well posh'

Yeah, exactly. It came from economists trying to work out why people don't make rational decisions all the time. My local pub recently removed 'vegan' from the 'vegan apple pie' on their desert menu and sales went up. It's the same product but 'bounding' the available info changed behaviour.

It's the idea that people have limited information when they make decisions- so it asserts that you can't make optimal decisions (except in hindsight), you can only ever make satisfactory ones. It's effectively a behavioural model that gives a structure to the idea of choices being 'good enough'.

Simon's work on 'bounded rationality' and Sutherland's ideas around behavioural economics are things I've found really useful on this. Also, Micah Ensley on situational awareness (SA)

Definitely swapping out Nürburgring for Autódromo José Carlos Pace. Would also consider ditching Imola for Circuit Gilles Villeneuve… it's 50/50, though.

I have two young children and there came a point where I wanted to be as mentally available as possible for them. I often failed to get the work: life balance right, but I loved the work immensely. Equally demanding and rewarding.

Thank you! I'm now working at Steplab.co Loving the change, even if it's a bit weird to begin with, and the time to write things down.