+1 #164: Parkinson's Law




OPTIMIZE with Brian Johnson | More Wisdom in Less Time - Video show

Summary: If you’re into Optimizing, you’ve probably heard of something called “Parkinson’s Law.” Although the phrase was originally coined in a humorous commentary about bureaucratic inefficiencies for the Economist in 1955, here’s the basic idea: The amount of time it takes you to complete something will expand to the amount of time you give it.