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Great post from Ben Orlin on treating time as a constraint and not an optimization target.

Example from his post: Instead of what is the fastest meal I can make, consider what’s the best meal I can make in the next 40 minutes?

:blobcatcookienom:

mathwithbaddrawings.com/2022/0

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