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71: Tradeoffs

Time and Attention

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The Marginal Benefits of Adding Icing to Cakes

The marginal cost of every additional layer of icing you have is that you can't really taste the cake any more, because eventually you're going to end up with a cake that is just icing and no cake. As you add more icing, the marginal benefit here is extra ness. The nice thing is you can apply this to so many things in your life, like literally every single thing in your life. So lake on your icing your schedule. We oll much fun, ok? Or at least that's what i like to tell myself. I think she has whole money in a week, and that it is, you now, she's got lots of twit her follow oska

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