[Cerium]

My first thought here is that the composition of todo waves allows the opportunity for a human to become arbitrarily busy on a given day when the waves positively interfere. Thankfully many of these items phase lock to the circadian rhythm or enjoy some scheduling flexibility.

[ZeroGravitas]

I thought it was going to try to actively schedule based on the opposite of that, like get your passport renewed early because you have a lot of stuff coming up next year.

[Cerium]

Yes, I thought it would go there as well.

[divbzero]

Unfortunately the troughs of the waves are at minimum zero so we cannot benefit from negative interference to cancel out waves.

[divbzero]

Or perhaps the right mental model is to treat help from others as negative waves. When you anticipate a particularly busy “rogue wave” you arrange help with shopping, food prep, family care, etc., to cancel out some portion of that wave.