Revisiting Parkinson's Law - Cal Newport
‘Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion,’ the English humorist and historian C. Northcote Parkinson wrote in 1955, coining what became known as Parkinson’s law.5 But
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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. — C. Northcote Parkinson