Alex Kruger enjoys efficiency. It's a major part of his job at work and naturally, it felt right to optimize with dating, too. He constructed a dating system to truly get down to it -- who fits the checklist? Who is worth getting off the couch for? Who moves to the next column? 

Obviously, our romantic side protests much, in response to such a systemized approach, but why not see if it could, just actually work? We talk about the system, make *live* changes to it, and talk about the heartbreak that comes from one of the checkboxes.

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