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Hofstadter's law is a self-referential adage, coined by Douglas Hofstadter in his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979) to describe the widely experienced difficulty of accurately estimating the time it will take to complete tasks of substantial complexity: [1] [2]
This was attributed mainly to two factors: that officials want subordinates, not rivals, and that officials make work for each other. The first paragraph of the essay mentioned the first meaning above as a "commonplace observation", and the rest of the essay was devoted to the latter observation, terming it "Parkinson's Law".
The opportunity to go as far as you can as fast as you can was, to many, more alluring than a 9-5 office job full of boring busy work, Peter Orszag says.
The advantage of the man-hour concept is that it can be used to estimate the impact of staff changes on the amount of time required for a task, which can done by dividing the number of man-hours by the number of workers available. For example, if a task takes 20 man-hours to complete then a team of 2 people will complete it in 10 hours of work ...
Wayfair’s CEO has an end-of-year message for employees of the online furniture company: Don’t shy away from doing more work and blending your work with your life. “Winning requires hard work.
The Problem With Working Longer Working Longer to Max Out Social Security May Fail Most Workers As a 2022 report from the National Bureau of Economic Research noted, “Americans are notoriously ...
Baddeley and Hitch's model of working memory. In 1974 Baddeley and Hitch [11] introduced the multicomponent model of working memory.The theory proposed a model containing three components: the central executive, the phonological loop, and the visuospatial sketchpad with the central executive functioning as a control center of sorts, directing info between the phonological and visuospatial ...
Just like you delegate work to an employee on your team, you’ll soon delegate work to AI. And, just like working with people, effectively delegating a task to AI requires clear communication.