Important Work Expands to Fill Whatever Time You Give It

The Law You Already Know But Keep Ignoring Cyril Northcote Parkinson wrote in 1955 that &ldquo;work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.&rdquo; He was describing British civil servants, but he stumbled onto something that applies with uncomfortable precision to technical work. Give yourself a week to design an API and it will take a week. Give yourself two hours and…