Ugh. Your last paragraph rings incredibly true for me. The only (partial) antidote that I've found is having a reasonable cadence for updating major project sta

Ugh. Your last paragraph rings incredibly true for me. The only (partial) antidote that I've found is having a reasonable cadence for updating major project status in a well-known place. If you publish reasonably current information on an on-going basis (which seems like a reasonable demand), you have a chance to avoid many of the curiosity escalations.