My wife and I have been arguing recently about my family’s tendancy to over-plan.\u00a0 The Trick way does tend to have plans with lots of contingencies, which perhaps a reason operations research appeals to me.\u00a0 The Weyers (my wife Ilona’s surname) approach is a little more … take it as things come.<\/p>\n
The Think-OR blog<\/a> has a wonderful OR joke<\/a> that pretty well summarizes how us over-planners work.\u00a0 I think it is instructive that both Ilona and I think that the story vindicates our chosen position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My wife and I have been arguing recently about my family’s tendancy to over-plan.\u00a0 The Trick way does tend to have plans with lots of contingencies, which perhaps a reason operations research appeals to me.\u00a0 The Weyers (my wife Ilona’s surname) approach is a little more … take it as things come. The Think-OR blog … Continue reading “Over- versus Under-Planning”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-web","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}