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Down with -maxxing! Searching for the absolute best option isn’t always the wisest course of action. Better to make a good-enough choice so “a great deal of energy gets freed up for living, instead of being spent on wondering about how to live”.
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I subscribe to a few subreddits devoted to areas that are popular vacation destinations. Every day there are multiple people posting things like "I will be in X for 36 hours. I already plan to [lists a number of activities that I would find tiring to do in a week]. What else can I do?"
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