Wing

“Giving yourself more time to decide about something does not necessarily mean that you'll make a better decision. But it does guarantee that you'll end up considering more factors, more hypotheticals, more pros and cons, and thus risk overfitting.”
― Brian Christian, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

“When the future is foggy, it turns out you don't need a calendar -- just a to-do list.”
― Brian Christian

“Taylor created a planning office, at the heart of which was a bulletin board displaying the shop's schedule for all to see. The board depicted every machine in the shop. showing the task currently being carried out by that machine and all the task waiting for it. This practice would be built upon by Taylor's colleague Henry Gantt, who in the 1910s developed the Gantt charts that would help organize many of the twentieth century's most ambitious construction projects, from the Hoover Dam to the Interstate Highway System.”
― Brian Christian, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

“Thrashing is a very recognizable human state. If you've ever had a moment where you wanted to stop doing everything just to have the chance to write down everything you were supposed to be doing, but couldn't spare the time, you've thrashed.”
― Brian Christian, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions