Algorithms to Live By The Computer Science of Human Decisions Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

Humans and computers face many of the same problems: We both have a never-ending stream of things we want to do and a limited amount of time and energy to do them. Is it possible that the age-old question of how best to live has already been solved by computer engineers? In Algorithms to Live By, science writer Brian Christian and Berkeley psychologist Tom Griffiths team up to prove that computer science is a fount of unconventional wisdom with practical value in many areas of human life.In this guide, you’ll learn how to schedule your to-do list the same way computers do, why making random decisions is sometimes the smartest thing to do, and why you should reject the first 37% of jobs in your search for employment. We’ll also compare and contrast Christian and Griffiths’s advice to more traditional self-help perspectives on the same topics, such as the productivity advice in Brian Tracy’s Eat That Frog! and organizational advice in Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.