1. Parkinson's Law
The speaker explains: work expands to fill the available time until its completion, so giving yourself 100 hours for a 10-hour side project or six months to find a job will cause it to take that entire duration.
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0:35 · 8 August 2023
How To Finish What You Start (Software Developers)
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Signie developed mental model 2 out of 10. Parkinson's Law, formulated by the British author Cyril Parkinson, who observed that work expands so as to fill the available time until its completion. As a developer, this basically means that if you give yourself 100 hours to do a side project, it will take you 100 hours. Even if it was doable in 10 hours only. Same with any course you're doing, feature you're working on, or even in your job hunt.
Give yourself six months to find a job, you will find it in six months. Which means that unless you set firm deadlines for yourself, you'll never finish.