Deciding Better: The Science of Choice
Move beyond intuition to make smarter, more calculated choices. Learn to navigate uncertainty, outsmart your own biases, and apply the frameworks used by professional strategists.
Like Duolingo, but for Deciding Better: The Science of Choice. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
21 levels across 4 sections, about 42 minutes end to end, roughly 8 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Sharpening Your Daily Logic, Navigating Uncertainty, Strategic and Group Decisions, and The Mechanics of Choice. It assumes you already know the basics.
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Key ideas in Deciding Better: The Science of Choice
- Intuition requires high-validity environments
- Prospective hindsight and identifying reasons
- Pattern recognition fails in novel environments
- Imagining failure removes social pressure
- Low-validity environments require rule-based analysis
- Pre-mortems identify kill risks
- When to trust intuition versus analytical models
- Application of the Pre-mortem technique to uncover risks
- Hindsight bias makes us believe we predicted an outcome after it happens.
- Resulting is the tendency to equate the quality of a decision with its outcome.
- Recording your 'state of mind' prevents rewriting history based on the result.
- Probabilistic thinking acknowledges that good processes can yield bad results.
- Journals capture the trade-offs and uncertainties known at the time of choice.
- Separating luck from skill is essential for long-term decision improvement.
- Distinguishing between decision quality and outcome quality
- The 10-minute horizon captures immediate emotional reactions and 'hot' states.
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Deciding Better: The Science of Choice the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
How does 'prospective hindsight' help a team plan for a new project?
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How to learn Deciding Better: The Science of Choice, step by step
Go in order. 21 short levels across 4 sections, about 42 minutes in all, five minutes a day.
- 1
Sharpening Your Daily Logic
- Beyond Gut Feeling
- Framing the Problem
- 2
Navigating Uncertainty
- Probabilistic Thinking
- Identifying Cognitive Traps
- 3
Strategic and Group Decisions
- Game Theory in Practice
- Group Dynamics and Consensus
- 4
The Mechanics of Choice
- Utility and Value Theory
4 sections · 7 units · 21 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
Questions about Deciding Better: The Science of Choice
How do I learn Deciding Better: The Science of Choice?
Go in order: start with Sharpening Your Daily Logic, then Navigating Uncertainty, then Strategic and Group Decisions, then The Mechanics of Choice. On Tomo that's 21 short levels, about 42 minutes in all, played five minutes a day. Start free and play the first level in under a minute.
Is there a Duolingo-style app for Deciding Better: The Science of Choice?
Yes. Tomo works like Duolingo: short daily lessons, streaks and quick quizzes. Deciding Better: The Science of Choice is one of its free courses, and you can type any other topic to get a course of your own.
Is the Deciding Better: The Science of Choice course free?
Yes. Deciding Better: The Science of Choice is playable on Tomo's free plan, which doesn't expire. No credit card, no waitlist. Download the app and start your first lesson.
How long does it take to learn Deciding Better: The Science of Choice?
21 levels across 4 sections, about 42 minutes of play in total. It's built for five minutes a day, so you finish it a little at a time instead of all at once.
Do I need any background to start Deciding Better: The Science of Choice?
No. It's pitched at an intermediate level, so it starts where you are and builds up. If you can tap a phone, you can start.
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