Daryl Ducharme

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Look-Then-Leap Rule: You set a predetermined amount of time for “looking”—that is, exploring your options, gathering data—in which you categorically don’t choose anyone, no matter how impressive. After that point, you enter the “leap” phase, prepared to instantly commit to anyone who outshines the best applicant you saw in the look phase.
Daryl Ducharme
discussing the 37% rule with the "secretary problem". That percentage is the time to change to leap mode.
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
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