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Relaxation: Why the Next Best Option is the Best Option

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Hey there! Thanks for visiting. But I’ve shifted to Substack as of 2022 and don’t actively publish here anymore. When somebody tells you to relax, it’s probably because you make a bigger deal out of your problems than you should. Here’s some counterintuitive advice: you don’t have to relax yourself. Relax your problems instead. Let’s take a problem. A man named Lincoln Abraham works as a lawyer in a city. He has to ride hundreds of miles over many weeks and move through towns in numerous states to try cases. It’s a hard job and wastes a lot of time. One fine day Mr. Abraham decides to optimise his route. He asks himself, how I can visit all the necessary towns while covering as few miles as possible and without going to any town twice? Mr. Abraham soon realises that this is gonna be harder than he initially thought. What he is trying to solve is a popular (intractable) problem known as the travelling salesman problem. The question isn’t whether we can find the shortest route. One can s

When somebody tells you to relax, it’s probably because you make a bigger deal out of your problems than you should. Here’s some counterintuitive advice: you don’t have to relax yourself. Relax your problems instead. Let’s take a problem. A man named Lincoln Abraham works as a lawyer in a city. He has to ride hundreds of miles over many weeks and move through towns in numerous states to try cases. It’s a hard job and wastes a lot of time. One fine day Mr. Abraham decides to optimise his route. He asks himself, how I can visit all the necessary towns while covering as few miles as possible and

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