“Invention requires two things: 1. The ability to try a lot of experiments, and 2. not having to live with the collateral damage of failed experiments.” - Andy Jassy CEO AWS
Parkinson's Law - Work expands to fill the time you give it. Shrink the deadline, shrink the task.
Hofstadter's Law - Everything takes longer than you expect, even when you account for Hofstadter's Law.
Hanlon's Razor - Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by carelessness or stupidity.
The Pareto Principle (80/20) - Roughly 80% of the results comes from 20% of the effort.
The Peter Principle - People get promoted until they reached a job they are bad at and then stay there.
Hick's Law - More options means slower decisions. Cut the menu, decide faster.
Goodhart's Law - When a measure becomes a target, it's stop being a good measure.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect - The less you know, the more you overestimate how much you know
Occam's Razor - The simplest explanation is usually the right one.
Chesterton's Fence - Don't tear something down until you understand why it was built in the first place.
Brook's Law - If you add more people to a project that's already late, it's going to be even more late. Because we underestimate coordination costs.