Cold, wet morning and I like it. Coffee extra hot and the sound coming from my office window is is everything you’d expect on a severely rainy morning in NYC. The hiss of car engines mixed with the occasional whirl of an ambulance siren or fire engine horn, the intermittent bassy grumble of a big rig down-shifting before a red light. Windows closed because it’s cold, and my desk lamp’s light is slightly yellow against the perfect white of an evenly clouded sky.

Ten minutes have just passed because a coworker came to ask about a meeting we have later today. I can’t wait for this one. A group of complexity theorists are coming to talk about doing a project with us on decision making and dealing with ambiguity. The interesting part is that they want to use our preexisting simulations and build an add-on that tracks decision making behavior over time. The output would be a profile for each participant that describes back to them how well they handled ambiguity, and strategies they can use to become better at it. I really like the idea because it might breathe some life back into our older simulations, and also give us some good things to write about.

I have a good soreness burning from last night’s training, but not enough to impede tonight’s fight. I can’t wait for this. After two weeks of being under the weather, I’m going to have a blast on the mats. I hope he’s ready to have a good time, because I feel pretty invincible and aggressive lately. I will let you know how it goes, of course. Though, like me, you probably already know.

Have a great weekend.