[tyleo]

I don’t think that fake deadlines are better than real ones. Fake deadlines can provide value but they indicate the environment is deficient in other ways: some sort of trust is lacking. The fake deadline is a bandaid on top of that.

I think you can get the same benefit as fake deadlines with real deadlines (ones with teeth) and without executing from an initial position of, “someone can’t be trusted so the deadline must be fake.”