{"id":5975,"date":"2026-08-05T09:31:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T08:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/?p=5975"},"modified":"2026-08-05T09:46:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T08:46:26","slug":"pick-any","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/pick-any\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick any"},"content":{"rendered":"

I watched a video<\/a> this morning, and I find the ideas expressed there quite interesting.<\/p>\n

In essence, it\u2019s about not agonizing over choices available and trying to maximize outcomes, because if the choices are similar enough for you to actually have to spend time on analysis, it\u2019s likely that the outcomes of both choices will be identical, and you\u2019re never getting back the time you wasted on trying to figure out which is the best.<\/p>\n

I think I could find issues with this concept in spiritual and ethical matters, where choices actually have important consequences. However, I keep seeing people who agonize over all kinds of equipment \u2013 what do I get, is this the best, or should I get the other one?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you an example of how I solve those problems. Once I was trying to buy headphones, and since I didn\u2019t know anything about those, I went online and tried to figure it out. Of course, it was a mess, because everybody has their favourites, so I basically found two mid-range models that people bitterly argue over back and forth, and bought one of those that I found in the local store. My logic was that if one was clearly better than the other, there wouldn\u2019t be any arguments about it, so they are both obviously similar enough that whichever I get, it will be fine. So I bought the headphones and they worked great, and I still have them.<\/p>\n

So, instead of trying to maximise the outcome by investing more time in trying to discern minute details between two almost identical options, I always choose to just be done with it and continue living my life. Essentially, the harder to discern which is better, the less it matters in any meaningful way, because if one was actually better, the choice would be easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I watched a video this morning, and I find the ideas expressed there quite interesting. In essence, it\u2019s about not agonizing over choices available and trying to maximize outcomes, because if the choices are similar enough for you to actually … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5977,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions\/5977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}