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		perilunar on Sept 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We are clueless about how long things should take They sort of do though. As hyperpallium alluded to above, the trick is to vastly overestimate the time required, then let Parkinson's law take up the slack.

crimsonalucard on Sept 25, 2019 [–]

Doesn't that prove my point? They use overestimation to hide the unpredictable nature of the project itself.

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