Buy a coal mine, drive a gas guzzler, and other uses of reverse logic

Re:Buy a coal mine, drive a gas guzzler, and other uses of r... by 8organicbits on Saturday December 25, 2021 @02:53PM (#29686382)

> Alas, the Landsburg rule can only be imposed in controlled environments such as a theme park, perhaps. But you might consider applying a dose of Landsburg’s logic to your own “to do” list: don’t add a new item to the list unless you’re willing to do it immediately.

I've got to ponder the to do list example though.

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Re:Buy a coal mine, drive a gas guzzler, and other uses of r... by alanbernstein on Saturday December 25, 2021 @03:08PM (#29686502)

I think you'd end up with a similar amount of person-minutes of waiting overall, it just wouldn't be as apparent who is waiting for what.

As for the to do list, to me that suggestion amounts to nothing more than splitting my to do list into two, a "to do now" list, and a "to do eventually" list (well, I would call it a "two do" list), where I just move items from the second one to the first. That might have some value, but it's not a mind-blowing reversal of logic.

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