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by halfdeadcat 1251 days ago
The premise of this blog was this: the author budgeted 6-8 weeks to tackle a problem that he finished in 3 days. That doesn't make him 10x as productive as someone else. It just means he is really bad at estimating how long it will take to solve a problem. Estimating how long it will take to figure something out is a devilishly tricky problem.