Always time for tea
summary
Claim: the natural state is "always time for tea" — there never appears a clean block of time to refactor so organize for constrained, recurring deadlines. Cites psychological studies (short intervals overestimated, long underestimated), Hofstadter’s law, and research that recurring external deadlines like Sprints give best results. Notes ROI math: earlier delivery raises return, and purpose-driven firms outperform long-term (example Tesla vs GM valuation). Compares lightweight methods (Scrum 14 pages, Kanban ~256, SAFe ~320) and offers a practical manifesto: deadlines over estimates, purpose over plans, small over big, simplicity over complexity.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:04Spoiler alert
- 9:45Humans are good at working to deadlines
- 14:14Deadlines over estimates
- 16:59Work backwards
- 20:46Alice is busy doing stuff
- 23:06What Porpoise?
- 30:30Stockdale paradox
- 32:25Dark side of planning
- 34:12But not planning is crazy?
- 36:17Drink Me
- 40:46Simplify
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