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		Heloseaa on April 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Headline Driven Development Can't this be qualified more simply as the Parkinson's law in action ?

ghaff on April 1, 2024 [–]

There's definitely truth to that as the flip side. If you say something will take three years, you'll find some way to stretch it out to three years (or at least 2 1/2) even if you could have gotten something reasonable out in a year.

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