There is a gap between a busy day and a day spent completing important work. Through ExaRing+’s Rings and execution records, its Bayesian feedback loop, and Jordan’s story, this article examines how judgments about oneself change the next action.
26 min read
Bayesian
Bayesian
Evidence
SERIESSeries: Scientific History — The Human Epic: ForewordBusiness Decision Science
Follow the course of world history to explore the birth of knowledge and the choices people made. An introduction to why EXA Business Science reads business and civilization through history.
14 min read
WorldHistory
World History
Scientific History
SERIESSeries: Scientific History — The Human Epic: Part 1Business Decision Science
Needles and fire, a small house by a lake, and the grave of two children. Follow the long story of how Ice Age people endured the cold, passed on knowledge, and made their way into new lands.
43 min read
WorldHistory
World History
Scientific History
SERIESSeries: The Conditions for Success and ExaRing+: Part 1Personal Success
What action should the success you want lead to today? This essay explores the meaning of a Ring: dividing a large goal into units of execution that can be completed, then defining their completion criteria and priority. It follows how one completion builds self-trust and learning, and carries them into the next action.
14 min read
Business
ExaRing+
Personal Success
SERIESSeries: Material On-Time Risk: Part 1Business Operations
Why does the goal you set freeze every time you sit at your desk? EXA supports not only business enterprises but also the business of personal success through a scientific approach. Personal success is not simply a matter of willpower or positive thinking. It is a systems problem: precisely designing a distant higher-level vision into a causal chain that can be started today. Through the realistic story of an employee preparing to start a business after work, this article answers several questions clearly: the cognitive-science reason the brain avoids starting in front of a huge goal, how to design a causal Tree that breaks through real obstacles instead of a wish list, the minimum execution unit that leads to success and is entirely different from a simple To Do, the three attributes and one operating condition of EXA's distinctive Ring, and how one small 30-minute execution closed today connects to a vast vision like a chain. If you have grown tired of blaming yourself for doing nothing but making plans, you will find a sure breakthrough that tears down the great wall and helps you bring one thing to completion tonight.
Change the inspection records in a short-shot investigation and see how new evidence changes the judgment about its cause. Move between experiments and investigation notes to distinguish this evidence from the overall judgment, and build a basis for discussing the next inspection and action.