Suffering-Oriented Programming (2012)

I have a principle called "the principle of maximum inconvenience".

This principle tells you that whatever you should be doing right now, is the most inconvenient possible path at this time.

It serves as a guide to help orient me in life especially when I'm at a crossroads.

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That's a dangerous game to play if you consider dying to be a serious inconvenience.

I think Deadpool summed it up pretty well with "maximum effort". Though I think the whole path-of-most-resistance thing goes back to Marcus Aurelius at least.

People don't usually put this on their TODO list.

If you do, you will really need a really careful optimization algorithm.

This is a very similar approach to the one espoused in Eat That Frog: do the hardest, scariest task first thing in the morning, and everything else will be easier.