Re:Optimizing Your Wife
by asimjalis on Sunday April 04, 2010 @06:22PM
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The article also applies to picking business opportunities. Suppose you are going to see N opportunities. According to the article you should pick the best opportunity so far after N/e have passed.
Some questions this raises:
(a) How do you really know if an opportunity (or a wife) is any good? The evaluation function seems to be a key ingredient for success.
(b) What if N is infinite.
(c) More realistically, suppose N is very large. Suppose I am going to see an opportunity a day. If I live for another 40 years, that 14,610 days. So N = 14,610. Doing the math the article is saying that you do nothing for about 15 years. And then pick the best opportunity you have seen so far.
Some questions this raises:
(a) How do you really know if an opportunity (or a wife) is any good? The evaluation function seems to be a key ingredient for success.
(b) What if N is infinite.
(c) More realistically, suppose N is very large. Suppose I am going to see an opportunity a day. If I live for another 40 years, that 14,610 days. So N = 14,610. Doing the math the article is saying that you do nothing for about 15 years. And then pick the best opportunity you have seen so far.