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Parkinson's law. Work expands to fill the time you give it. Shrink the deadline. Shrink the task.
Hoffadder's law. Everything takes longer than you expect, even when you account for Hoffad's law.
Hanland's razor. Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by carelessness or stupidity.
The Pareto principle or 80/20. Roughly 80% of the results come from 20% of the effort.
The Peter principle. People get promoted until they reach a job they're bad at and then stay there.
Hicks law. More options means slower decisions. Cut the menu. Decide faster.
Goodart's law. When a measure becomes a target, it stops being a good measure.
The Dunning Krueger effect. The less you know, the more you overestimate how much you know.
Aams razor. The simplest explanation is usually the right one.
Chesterton's fence. Don't tear something down until you understand why it was built in the first place.
Brooks's law. If you add more people to a project that's already late, it's going to be even more late because we underestimate coordination costs.