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by Sohcahtoa82 2 hours ago
> take your estimate of how long it will take to do something and double it before communicating to your manager/users.

Yeah, but did you take Hofstadter's Law into account?

It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law