> 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 La

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