"The cognitive scientist [[Douglas Hofstadter]] is famous, among other reasons, for coining “Hofstadter’s law,” which states that **any task you’re planning to tackle will always take longer than you expect, “even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”** In other words, even if you know that a given project is likely to overrun, and you adjust your schedule accordingly, **it’ll just overrun your new estimated finishing time, too**. "It follows from this that **the standard advice about planning—to give yourself twice as long as you think you’ll need—could actually make matters worse**." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[hofstadter-law]], [[planning-fallacy]], [[control]], **Source** -- [[202410130434 - B - Four Thousand Weeks]]