With regards to scheduling my social life, I have ten rules (that I admittedly sometimes break)

I am a big fan of rules-of-thumb. (If I was a more sophisticated talker, I might call them heuristics). And I have several rules of thumb with regards to how I schedule things. Now I'm a bit embarrassed to reveal these, I'm sure that almost everyone who reads this post is going to be able to think of times when I've done the exact opposite, but still, t…