{"id":1059,"date":"2012-03-05T01:06:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T06:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2012-02-10T11:28:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T16:28:13","slug":"the-flip-a-coin-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2012\/03\/the-flip-a-coin-technique\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flip-A-Coin Technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Binary decisions &#8211; choose either A or B, nothing else &#8211; can be difficult. Tossing a coin, but not looking at it, is a useful technique.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I learned this technique a few years ago at a conference. You are confronted with a decision with two choices: A or B. You are uncertain as to which you want.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Flip a coin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, flip a coin just like when you were a child. Except here, you don&#8217;t look at the coin.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While the coin is in the air, a burning sensation in your heart will tell you which choice you really want.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Put the coin back in your pocket. Never, I repeat, never look at the coin to see what way it would have taken you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Binary decisions &#8211; choose either A or B, nothing else &#8211; can be difficult. Tossing a coin, but not looking at it, is a useful technique. I learned this technique a few years ago at a conference. You are confronted with a decision with two choices: A or B. You are uncertain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7,88],"tags":[135,130,205],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-judgment","category-play","tag-design","tag-judgment","tag-play"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}