Algorithms to Live By

When making a decision, it can be hard to know when to keep looking for options or when to stop looking and make a choice. This is true whether you’re looking for an apartment, spouse, or parking space. But it turns out there’s an algorithm that provides an exact answer: You should stop looking after you’ve seen 37% of the possibilities. You can use human algorithms to clean out your closet, manage your time, and make more accurate predictions about the future; this Snapshot will show you how.