Recursion

Rather than using the popular joke about recursion (see bottom), I’ll reference a very peculiar adage which makes use of this particular mental model: The Hogstadter’s Law, states that: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law. See what happened there? The law is a self-referential adage, that tries to describe the widely experienced difficulty of accuratelly estimate the time it will take to complete tasks of substancial complexity. ...