The Greedy Algorithm

I was listening to a podcast featuring a woman who has worked at Microsoft and quit to become a screenwriter. When talking about her career decisions she mentioned the greedy algorithm. It seem to apply to the decisions in my life

A greedy algorithm is any algorithm that follows the problem-solving heuristic of making the locally optimal choice at each stage  with the intent of finding a global optimum. It’s the story of my life. Each decision seemed optimal at the time, but it is a complete accident that the algorithm produced a globally optimum life. The greedy algorithm fails to find the optimal solution to many problems. As far as I can tell, no one has ever tried to determine if it can be used to solve the problem of life.