Wild problems — a mental model for deciding on the big questions of life

Rasmus Ursem
9 min readNov 10, 2022

Who should I marry? What education would be best? Should I try to live abroad?

Photo by Colton Sturgeon on Unsplash

These are life decisions that are REALLY challenging to decide on and are called wild problems in Ross Roberts book “Wild problems: A guide to the decisions that define us”. He describes real and humorous stories of how great thinkers like Charles Darwin tried to…

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Rasmus Ursem

Computer & data scientist, writer, thinker, photographer, and generally curious about life and the wet matter between our ears — in short, I’m a poly-geek :-)