History is written by the winners

title: “Hofstaders Law”

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date: 20-10-2022

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tive scientist Douglas Hofstadter that says a task will always take longer that you are expecting, even if you take into account this law.

We are bad at estimating how long tasks will take.

I first came across this in Four Thousand Weeks-Oliver Burkeman.