If you have 100 hours, and and 100 commitments, each of which takes an hour, that is clearly a case of low time slack.
If you have 100 hours, and 80 commitments each of which takes either 0 or 2 hours (with equal chance) that is the high slack you seem to be talking about. Note that √n units of free time are available. This person is still pretty busy.
If you have 100 hours, and 1 hour of commitment, and most of the rest of the time will be spent laying in bed doing nothing or timewasting, this person has the most slack.
A way reality might not line up with the superlinear returns on slack is that there aren’t that many opportunities of similar value to take.
and most of the rest of the time will be spent laying in bed doing nothing or timewasting, this person has the most slack.
It depends on how much optionality the person has around changing this behavior. Often busy people have the most slack because they have the most agency to change their behavior.
If you have 100 hours, and and 100 commitments, each of which takes an hour, that is clearly a case of low time slack.
If you have 100 hours, and 80 commitments each of which takes either 0 or 2 hours (with equal chance) that is the high slack you seem to be talking about. Note that √n units of free time are available. This person is still pretty busy.
If you have 100 hours, and 1 hour of commitment, and most of the rest of the time will be spent laying in bed doing nothing or timewasting, this person has the most slack.
A way reality might not line up with the superlinear returns on slack is that there aren’t that many opportunities of similar value to take.
It depends on how much optionality the person has around changing this behavior. Often busy people have the most slack because they have the most agency to change their behavior.