Every week your calendar fills with more meeting invites than you can reasonably handle. Which ones are worth the time and energy, and which should you politely decline? What if there was a way to quantify that choice?
“Your calendar is a knapsack. Every meeting takes space, but only some add enough value to justify carrying them.”
The good news: math can help. By modeling your schedule as a 0/1 knapsack problem with two constraints , you can treat meetings like items with value, time cost, and energy cost. Classic optimization techniques then help decide which meetings to attend. In this post, we’ll walk through framing the problem, prompting AI to scaffold the code, and running a simulation to visualize your optimal “meeting diet.”