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## Timeboxing: Parkinson's Law + Planning Fallacy Parkinson's

Timeboxing: Parkinson's Law + Planning Fallacy

Parkinson's Law: Things take as long as you have to do them ("Deadlines are the condition of productivity")

Timeboxing: set a fixed period of time to work on some activity and stopping unconditionally

Why it works

  • Parkinson's law implies that setting a shorter time period may allow us to compress the schenanigans
  • You make progress on something, without the anxiety of completing it (which is known to be a hard problem to estimate, according to the planning fallacy)

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Further thinking