"Provided you can estimate the total number of options – the number of flats you’re prepared to look at, the number of potential picnic spots – **it’s a weird mathematical truth that your best bet is to reject the first 37 per cent of them, then pick the first one that’s better than any of those first 37 per cent**" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[satisficing]], [[making-decisions]], [[pragmatism]] **Source** -- [[20241114100017 - B - Help!]]