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Card #c862IR // #c862Synthesis

If you want the better outcome in a two-sided arrangement, hiring, partnerships, admissions, dating, be the side that proposes. The accepting side can only say yes or no to what shows up; the proposing side controls the options it presents.

— In our words · Source: Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know (Aniket Wattamwar)

[Use when]

You are setting up or entering a two-sided market or negotiation and want to know which side the rules favor.

[Why it matters]

In any two-sided match, the side that proposes gets its best stable result; the side that waits and accepts gets the leftover.

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