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How often do you google yourself? Other than for reasons for plain vanity, I think it important to do it often enough to ensure your online identity isn't hijacked. Since I have multiple online aliases, some of which I share with others, I have an automatic system that googles my online avatars every once in a while, reporting any "anomalies".

Imagine my surprise when I found that I had, unbeknownst to myself, given some lame-ass kissing advice on an eHarmony forum. After several email messages to the moderator, I decided to take matters into my own hands and just made a half-decent post myself, pointing out that I if I were to post, I'd have posted something that at least took a few minutes for me to pen, like the poem below:

Ori Brafman asked on Linkedin: What are your best examples of irrational decision-making in the workplace?

I answered thusly, though not to his point:

I believe, perhaps irrationally :-), that we all make two kinds of decisions regularly in our life. Well-founded, data-driven and reasoned decisions are the most common and form the first kind. The much rarer second kind is driven by instinct, gut feeling and perhaps no more than a deep sense of passion and belief in the long-term success of what appears, on all immediate counts, to be unfounded.