Can You Learn To Make Smarter Decisions?
Photos by Florian Schmetz, Author, and Dan Gold
The final item on this week’s learning list isn’t what it seems. But first, a brief introduction of how to think about making better decisions and looking into the future of food production and farming.
Making Smarter Decisions
How to make smarter decisions distilled into two short paragraphs? Not happening. This article is worth the 10-minute read about how to make better decisions as well as stop making dumb ones. It also includes additional resources worth looking into.
Some of my top takeaways include:
Easier to avoid stupid decisions than find brilliance.
Don’t forget to account for external influences and factors.
Is your subconscious impacting this decision positively or negatively?
Honestly assess what you know and what you don’t know.
Underground Farming
A Canadian company is trying to innovate the agricultural space by creating underground farms. Recently, vertical farming came out as the latest technological advancement in agriculture. It saves space by growing plants on top of each other but is still limited to the local weather for crop patterns.
However, underground farming uses tunnels to bring the vertical farming system underground. Temperatures are more consistent year-round when underground, meaning theoretically, you could grow and eat local food more consistently.
Yet this leaves me wondering, does underground farming still pull CO2 out of the air like traditional farming? Because farming, specifically regenerative agriculture, aims to use plants to combat rising global temperatures.
Bike Maintenance
Most of what I write about here are things I seek out due to curiosity. It’s opening ScienceDaily, National Geographic, or some other website or book, specifically looking for something new to learn. When it comes to biking, however, I was recently forced to learn how to index my gears and make my tires tubeless.
I’m not sharing the steps of how to accomplish those maintenance tasks. Instead, I’m sharing the realization that there are different reasons for learning. For biking, it was out of necessity.
Underground agriculture was pure curiosity. And making better decisions was a combination of the two. I didn’t seek it out as it came from a weekly newsletter, but it has practical life applications that made me interested.
