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About Sten Oedman

Sten Oedman is the author of Battle for My Brain: F*** Your Doctor’s Stats!*

Diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2002, he began questioning what medical statistics can and cannot tell us about an individual life. That experience developed into a broader exploration of uncertainty, judgment, agency and how we make decisions when the future cannot be known.

Those questions extend far beyond cancer.

His career has spanned international finance, banking, risk management and leadership, fields where decisions must also be made with incomplete information and before outcomes can be known.

Battle for My Brain is where those experiences come together.

The experience of cancer provides one lens. His writing and media explore the wider questions of how we use statistics without mistaking probability for destiny, how we question expertise without rejecting it, how we preserve human judgment and how we continue to act when certainty is impossible.

The subjects may differ, from health and risk to leadership, decision making and emerging technology, but the underlying questions are often remarkably similar.

What do we know? What don’t we know? What assumptions are we making? What deserves another question? What can we do now?

The recurring habit is simple:

Why? Why not? What now?

Beneath it sits the larger question:

When certainty is impossible, what do we do now?

Professional background: LinkedIn

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