Algorithms to Live By: No Yaks

30 Nov 2018 at 20:12 // under Books Productivity

I am currently reading

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions Book by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths and in particular the section on scheduling.

There is more I want to say on the subject but I want to wait until I have finished the book and let it settle in. For now I will leave you with one observation.

The book spends a while talking about tasks which initially looks like they are low priority jobs, but they hold up a higher priority jobs. The book talks about priority inheritance, but I know this by a different term: Yak shaving

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