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How big things get done (or not)
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The Commitment Fallacy and the Spades in the Ground
Hofstader's law is the tendency to be optimist when it comes to planning. The rush to get spades in the ground often results in longer windows of doom and more chances for things to happen because you've started before you're really ready. Sometimes this is necessary or there's a culture of it being necessary to get sort of political buy-in on projects. It's a tendency to strategically misrepresent time and cost. Once they've dug a dirty, great big hole under the yara then no one's going to stop us now. We're just going to have to push onto the ends, right? Yeah.
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