## Metadata - Authors: [[brian-christian|Brian Christian]], [[griffiths|Griffiths]] - Full Title:: Algorithms to Live By - Category:: #📚Books - Finished date:: [[2023-02-02]] ## Highlights > Optimal stopping is the science of serial monogamy. ([Location 86](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B015DLA0LE&location=86)) > behavioral economics ([Location 138](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B015DLA0LE&location=138)) ## New highlights added [[2025-05-04]] [[blue|Blue]] > When have you met enough people to know who your best match is? And what if acquiring the data costs you that very match? It seems the ultimate Catch-22 of the heart. As we have seen, this Catch-22, this angsty freshman cri de coeur, is what mathematicians call an “optimal stopping” problem, and it may actually have an answer: 37%. ([Location 189](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B015DLA0LE&location=189))