Status Updates From Algorithms To Live By: The ...

I like the concept of optimal stopping and can see its many potential applications, but choosing a life partner is not one of them. Love is a feeling and compatibility is not something you can quantify definitively. But even if you could somehow rank all of your partners, there's no way to know when you've reached the optimal stopping point, since you can't know the number of "applicants" or how long you have to look

I'm a little wary of this book because it seems self-help adjacent. But as someone who struggles a lot with decision-making, there could be some useful information in here. And the premise does intrigue me even though I have zero knowledge or background in computer science (hopefully that doesn't present an issue while reading it)