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Is There Anything You Can Do to Make a Project Take Three Weeks Instead of Four Weeks?

It's an incredibly naive mental model that breaks so fundamentally, it's probably best to forego altogether. So i'll explain to four ways in which this mental model breaks. The mythical manmont a issue, whichis the court that goes that nine women can't make a child in one month. Some things just don't parallelyze. If you ad more projects towards he end of te project, it actually slows the project out. There is nothing that could make this project take three weeks instead of four weeks, except for, like, working week ends or whatever. And even that might not be misaly helpful....

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