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The Economics of Procrastination and Being Late: the Rational Delay Principle as an Argument for Beneficial Laziness

The Economics of Procrastination and Being Late: the Rational Delay Principle as an Argument for Beneficial Laziness

Brachfeld, Aaron

Paperback

Series: Business and Economics

Business GeneralEconomicsSelf-Help

ISBN13: 9798253285220
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 23 2026
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The early bird gets the worm - but few people stop to ask what the early worm gets.

Perhaps you know someone who is always late, and puts things off to the last minute. Perhaps that person is you? Written just a few hours before a lecture of the same name delivered at CMU Tech's Community Education Center, this book combines mathematical proofs of procrastination and lateness with humorous examples from every day life in common language to make the case that delay is sometimes the most rational decision we can make.

Such lessons in timing have already been learned by stock traders in the options markets, militaries which were too slow to launch nuclear weapons, ancient yogis and modern surgeons. But while laziness may be a healthy habit for uncertain and precarious times, there is a catch: wait too long, and an option expires. Opportunity vanishes. Choices evaporate. In a world where deadlines arrive whether we are ready or not we must be able to precisely calculate when to wait, when to act.

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