• aluminiumsandworm@kbin.social
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      8 months ago

      oh, no, it’s far worse than that. the last 90% is enough time to make what you thought was the first 90% become 10%.

      so 0.9*expected time = 0.1* actual time

      which, if you can do some very basic algebra, results in 900%. this implies that every project will seem “almost done” for about 9x the length of time you thought the project would take. in my experience, this is roughly correct

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        8 months ago

        As someone who has been working on a “almost done” Task for 2 years I can confirm.