Interesting to put this besides Hofstadter's law, which looks to be also real, which states "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into acc

Interesting to put this besides Hofstadter's law, which looks to be also real, which states "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law." I don't think these need to be reconciled though as they are about different things: one is about imposing psychological threats to induce action and the other is about the inherent incapacity for humans to reason temporally concerning complex tasks. One problem that arises though is that when tasks can't be sufficiently estimated, how do you reliably impose said psychological threats which don't turn into casual "oops, software's hard and is hard to estimate, hopefully better luck next time."