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Parkinson's law 0:35
A 35-second explainer of Parkinson's law, narrated over the same demo you can try yourself.
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What this video covers
Parkinson's law: work expands to fill the time given. Give it a week and it takes a week; give it an afternoon and it’s done by tea - often just as well.
Same email either way - but given all afternoon the work stretched to fill it, and given fifteen minutes it compressed to the essentials and still got done. The task never needed the extra time; it just expanded to use it. That's Parkinson's law - so a deadline is a design decision, not an afterthought.
