Revisiting Parkinson's Law - Cal Newport
In simple terms, Parkinson’s Law means that if you take a 2-hour task and allocate 4 hours to get it done, you will end up spending 4 hours working on the task. You may do more research, procrastinate, overthink your approach—the resulting work may be the same, but you will have ended up spending twice as much time as necessary on the task.
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Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Parkinson’s law: how constraints can create freedom
Parkinson’s Law: Tasks expand to fill available time. Tight deadlines = peak efficiency.
Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It is the magic of the imminent deadline. If I give you 24 hours to complete a project, the time pressure forces you to focus on execution, and you have no choice but to do only the bare essentials. If I give... See more
Parkinson's Law: how work expands to fill available time and organizational bureaucracy grows independent of actual workload
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Yeah. So the original of that is, I think it's 1956. It's an article in The Economist by Parkinson.
And the maxim is, work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
And the way that it shows up this is a little bit subtle so like um one of the things i found since i don have a job is there much less time pressure and and that makes them
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