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 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: without tight time constraints, the scope of a team's project will expand to fill the time available