There's actually a name for what you're trying to describe in this post. It's called Parkinson's Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsons_Law http://en.wiki

There's actually a name for what you're trying to describe in this post. It's called Parkinson's Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsons_Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsons_Law), and it states that "work expands to fill the time available." I'm not sure if you're trying to be self deprecating with that "overly simplified graph" line. Either way, I wouldn't panic about it too much. Kathy Sierra wrote some of the best user experience writing on the internet using diagrams that were just as simplistic.