Centrist voters typically decide general elections, so hard-left or hard-right platforms don't help.
Now that I'm older, I understand that it's up to the individual to decide who they are or what they are.
With Digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.
It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.
We don't decide how a movie will be distributed until it's finished. It might be on iTunes, it might be on 3,000 theaters, but we make that decision after the fact.
I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled between authors and readers, not advertiser.