[dogleash]

> I’ll go against the grain and say that fake deadlines are incredibly useful.

If everyone's on board with your definition of deadline and it always works that way, then sure yeah whatever I'm not going to argue the point.

But I'd argue the "fake" in "fake deadline" is admission to deliberately exploiting information asymmetry about where exactly a "deadline" sits between the "time box" definition of deadline and the "point when we stop working because the deliverable is now worthless" definition of deadline.