I have a question for you reading this post right now. Why are you reading it? I understand you need to fulfill a requirement or a fill a score, but this corona-virus has me more annoyed than usual so I’m going to stop beating around the metaphysical bush and just jump into it. Why are you doing what you’re doing right now?
Ok, so as I just said, you either need to fulfill a requirement or a score. However, to satisfy both, it is possible to not have to read this at all. If you glanced at my title, you could very easily provide a comment that “extends the discussion” by simply responding to it. I don’t blame you if you stop reading right now and move on with your quarantined day.
And if you’re reading this to fill a score, well, the requirements for these passion blogs are so slight I could probably write a rant on hand sanitizer and still get a 3/3 (to be fair my topic allows such leniency).
Basically, there is a lot more useful things you could be doing with your time right now, but you’re reading this blog instead. If you’ve made it this far I’m more confused than I am flattered. We are really bad at optimizing what we do with our time. This applies to everyone, it doesn’t matter how many times you say time management in your interviews, essays, or resumes. We apply arbitrary weights to tasks that shouldn’t be weighted the way they are.
Some call the phenomenon of losing something for every action you take ‘opportunity loss‘. It’s an economical idea that anything you decide on will cause you to lose opportunity in something else. Thus, the best decisions are those that minimize that loss. Meaning, if you’re seriously still reading this, you deemed your loss of time and whatever else you may have lost because of it was worth reading this.
But, the actual weight these blogs carry are extremely low. The comments are like, a point or so? The passion blogs themselves are three points, and the 700-word monsters that are Civic Issue blogs are a measly 5. If If I were to define the arbitrary weight each point carries as the time it takes to make the blogs divided by the points, it would not be worth the opportunity cost.
Yet, I still write/read them, and you still read/comment/score them.
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