Dating in Parallel

If your dating life seems out of sorts, it’s only because you’ve not properly wired your relationships. I’ll follow Brownlee’s lead and let this gem sparkle on its own:

Let’s let V be potential difference between dating girls and doing something productive, I be current of love, and R be resistance to current flow. The problem with serial dating is the same as with serial circuits. If resistance starts to increase, you’re stuck: because V = IR, and R is increasing, I must decrease to hold the equality. Worse still, because P = IV, you’re just not going to have as much power with the increased resistance. Note on the above diagram that current is a lousy 214 mA, and we’re only able to get 1.93 “jewels” from our relationships. This is even worse than it seems: because there’s only one path—through all relationships—you’ll end up spending the majority of your energy on the relationship with the greatest resistance, which is exactly the opposite of what you want to do.

Worst of all, if (horror of horrors) you actually blow out one of your relationships, all current stops until you can manually patch things up. Your love life will be at least momentarily in ruins.

How to improve this series of failures? Start dating in parallel. The genius is obvious, as this advanced diagram shows. Your new relationship wiring will be able to handle blow-outs without destabilizing the entire circuit.

Even better, this bit of wisdom was granted to the post’s author by his father, neatly tying it into both this week’s topic as well as next’s.

Smart Guys Date in Parallel [Bit Qua Bit]