11 Laws of the Universe — Transcript

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1. 0:00Parkinson's law. Work expands to fill
2. 0:02the time you give it. Shrink the
3. 0:03deadline. Shrink the task. Hoffadder's
4. 0:06law. Everything takes longer than you
5. 0:08expect, even when you account for
6. 0:09Hoffad's law. Hanland's razor. Never
7. 0:12attribute to malice what is adequately
8. 0:13explained by carelessness or stupidity.
9. 0:15The Pareto principle or 8020. Roughly
10. 0:1880% of the results come from 20% of the
11. 0:20effort. The Peter principle. People get
12. 0:23promoted until they reach a job they're
13. 0:25bad at and then stay there. Hicks law.
14. 0:28More options means slower decisions. Cut
15. 0:30the menu. Decide faster. Goodart's law.
16. 0:34When a measure becomes a target, it
17. 0:36stops being a good measure. The Dunning
18. 0:37Krueger effect. The less you know, the
19. 0:39more you overestimate how much you know.
20. 0:41Aams razor. The simplest explanation is
21. 0:44usually the right one. Chesterton's
22. 0:46fence. Don't tear something down until
23. 0:49you understand why it was built in the
24. 0:50first place. Brooks's law. If you add
25. 0:53more people to a project that's already
26. 0:54late, it's going to be even more late
27. 0:56because we underestimate coordination
28. 0:58costs.