Karp: Extreme expected value calculations ruin relationships and personal well-being
Jason Karp · Jason Karp: Live A Healthier Life · Apr 4, 2023 · at 34:40
Jason Karp, founder of HumanCo and former hedge fund manager, reflects on how treating relationships and health strictly through financial decision frameworks harmed his life.
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“If you take that class to an extreme, or that view of, like, everything's an option you start viewing everything in life with a cost-benefit analysis, including people, including pleasure, including you know, things that are less tangible but are the essence of what makes life life. And it's very easy to sort of view everything with this sort of cost benefit expected value lens. And I'd say there was a period when I did not assign enough of a weight on things that were less tangible. Relationships, your physical health, your sleep, and so if you take that to an extreme, you become a expected value optimization machine and you actually will ruin your life.”
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