#satisficing — Public Fediverse posts

“When #Simon faced a decision, he considered a few alternatives, sometimes asked for advice, chose and moved on. He didn’t agonize, and he didn’t second-guess. ‘The #best is enemy of the #good’ was the mantra he lived by.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/o... #HerbertSimon #satisficing

Opinion | The Nobel-Winning Ps...

“When #Simon faced a decision, he considered a few alternatives, sometimes asked for advice, chose and moved on. He didn’t agonize, and he didn’t second-guess. ‘The #best is enemy of the #good’ was the mantra he lived by.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/o... #HerbertSimon #satisficing

Opinion | The Nobel-Winning Ps...

“When #Simon faced a decision, he considered a few alternatives, sometimes asked for advice, chose and moved on. He didn’t agonize, and he didn’t second-guess. ‘The #best is enemy of the #good’ was the mantra he lived by.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/o... #HerbertSimon #satisficing

Opinion | The Nobel-Winning Ps...

The other extreme: decision avoidance, including maximizing is both excruciating and ultimately wasteful.

Recently that tactic ended in a rashly chosen “IT focus” ($*%! ) that will haunt me … for years.

#decisionmaking #beslutningsvegring #satisficing vs #maximizing

This week I explore trust developing through iterative interactions that are shaped by cultural, structural, and relational factors.

#HighTrustEnvironments #Satisficing #BoundedRationality #Leadership #OrganisationalCulture

https://robert.winter.ink/the-speed-of-higher-trust-leaders-part-2/

"The urge to do everything faster and better is risky. Far wiser to do what’s good enough for the range of possible futures"
https://psyche.co/ideas/why-efficiency-is-dangerous-and-slowing-down-makes-life-better
#BoundedRationality #satisficing #efficiency

@JamesGleick

#Satisficing comes to mind… and #patience. They'll come around. #SocialMedia are what we make them in the end… 🙂

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/on-generative-ai-and-satisficing
Generative #AI is changing the way we complete tasks. While it is helpful for tasks like planning a trip or meal, it cannot replace the #creativity of humans. Its best use is for simplifying obnoxious tasks. It can support writers and other professionals whose fields cannot be replaced by AI. Yet, we should keep an eye on the revenue models of these tools and put restrictions on their monetization to ensure they are used responsibly.
#satisficing #productivity #AIEthics

@allafarce
"Metamodernism" !?
and I thought Herbert Simon's #satisficing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing was an unfortunate term!

Interested in working with @tobiasgummer, Christof Wolf, and me on a project about non-optimized response behavior in surveys (#satisficing) with data from twin studies at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) AND writing your dissertation @unimannheim? Apply by Jan 15! https://mzes.uni-mannheim.de/d7/en/news/items/research-associate-fmd-twin-studies

Do you study #satisficing, careless response, or inattentiveness in self-administered #surveys such as #websurveys? Please, consider submitting your abstract to our #esra 2023 session. Hope to see you in #Milan. @tobiasgummer https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conf2023/sessions.php?sess=12

@jec Yes, this is very much what I'm getting at.

There are some Mastodon tools you can use, more on that in a follow-up.

On the concept itself, earlier writings:

Cheap Rejection as a Feature

Builds the idea that cheap and fast no-gregats information rejection is a feature in an information-rich world:

[M]ental models are not simply modeling devices, but information rejection tools. Borrowing from Clay Shirkey’s “It’s not information overload, it’s filter failure”, the world is a surprisingly information-rich space, and humans (or any other information-processing system, biological or otherwise) simply aren’t equipped to deal with more than a minuscule fraction of it. We aim for a useful fraction. It paints an incomplete, but useful picture.

Even a bad model has utility if it rejects information cheaply.

<https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/ab83b940180801391b0d002590d8e506

Refutation of Metcalfe's Law revisited: network effects meet Sturgeon's Law
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1yzvh3/refutation_of_metcalfes_law_revisited_network/

On bullshit, S/N, craft, respect, and originality
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1sdvma/on_bullshit_sn_craft_respect_and_originality/

#SignalNoise #Information #InformationOverload #CheapRejection #Models #Satisficing #InformationTheory

@jec Yes, this is very much what I'm getting at.

There are some Mastodon tools you can use, more on that in a follow-up.

On the concept itself, earlier writings:

Cheap Rejection as a Feature

Builds the idea that cheap and fast no-gregats information rejection is a feature in an information-rich world:

[M]ental models are not simply modeling devices, but information rejection tools. Borrowing from Clay Shirkey’s “It’s not information overload, it’s filter failure”, the world is a surprisingly information-rich space, and humans (or any other information-processing system, biological or otherwise) simply aren’t equipped to deal with more than a minuscule fraction of it. We aim for a useful fraction. It paints an incomplete, but useful picture.

Even a bad model has utility if it rejects information cheaply.

<https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/ab83b940180801391b0d002590d8e506

Refutation of Metcalfe's Law revisited: network effects meet Sturgeon's Law
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1yzvh3/refutation_of_metcalfes_law_revisited_network/

On bullshit, S/N, craft, respect, and originality
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1sdvma/on_bullshit_sn_craft_respect_and_originality/

#SignalNoise #Information #InformationOverload #CheapRejection #Models #Satisficing #InformationTheory

@jec Yes, this is very much what I'm getting at.

There are some Mastodon tools you can use, more on that in a follow-up.

On the concept itself, earlier writings:

Cheap Rejection as a Feature

Builds the idea that cheap and fast no-gregats information rejection is a feature in an information-rich world:

[M]ental models are not simply modeling devices, but information rejection tools. Borrowing from Clay Shirkey’s “It’s not information overload, it’s filter failure”, the world is a surprisingly information-rich space, and humans (or any other information-processing system, biological or otherwise) simply aren’t equipped to deal with more than a minuscule fraction of it. We aim for a useful fraction. It paints an incomplete, but useful picture.

Even a bad model has utility if it rejects information cheaply.

<https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/ab83b940180801391b0d002590d8e506

Refutation of Metcalfe's Law revisited: network effects meet Sturgeon's Law
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1yzvh3/refutation_of_metcalfes_law_revisited_network/

On bullshit, S/N, craft, respect, and originality
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1sdvma/on_bullshit_sn_craft_respect_and_originality/

#SignalNoise #Information #InformationOverload #CheapRejection #Models #Satisficing #InformationTheory

@jec Yes, this is very much what I'm getting at.

There are some Mastodon tools you can use, more on that in a follow-up.

On the concept itself, earlier writings:

Cheap Rejection as a Feature

Builds the idea that cheap and fast no-gregats information rejection is a feature in an information-rich world:

[M]ental models are not simply modeling devices, but information rejection tools. Borrowing from Clay Shirkey’s “It’s not information overload, it’s filter failure”, the world is a surprisingly information-rich space, and humans (or any other information-processing system, biological or otherwise) simply aren’t equipped to deal with more than a minuscule fraction of it. We aim for a useful fraction. It paints an incomplete, but useful picture.

Even a bad model has utility if it rejects information cheaply.

<https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/ab83b940180801391b0d002590d8e506

Refutation of Metcalfe's Law revisited: network effects meet Sturgeon's Law
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1yzvh3/refutation_of_metcalfes_law_revisited_network/

On bullshit, S/N, craft, respect, and originality
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1sdvma/on_bullshit_sn_craft_respect_and_originality/

#SignalNoise #Information #InformationOverload #CheapRejection #Models #Satisficing #InformationTheory

Do you study #satisficing, careless response, or inattentiveness in self-administered #surveys such as #websurveys? Please, consider submitting your abstract to our #esra 2023 session. Hope to see you in #Milan. @tobiasgummer https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conf2023/sessions.php?sess=12

Do you study #satisficing, careless response, or inattentiveness in self-administered #surveys such as #websurveys? Please, consider submitting your abstract to our #esra 2023 session. Hope to see you in #Milan. @tobiasgummer https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conf2023/sessions.php?sess=12

Do you study #satisficing, careless response, or inattentiveness in self-administered #surveys such as #websurveys? Please, consider submitting your abstract to our #esra 2023 session. Hope to see you in #Milan. @tobiasgummer https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conf2023/sessions.php?sess=12

Do you study #satisficing, careless response, or inattentiveness in self-administered #surveys such as #websurveys? Please, consider submitting your abstract to our #esra 2023 session. Hope to see you in #Milan. @tobiasgummer https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/conf2023/sessions.php?sess=12