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I May Have Bitten off More Than I Can chew!
But it’s important to deliver what you promised
5 days ago I embarked on a challenge — to read 10 new articles a day on this platform from writers I had never read before. For 31 days.
I’m starting to understand the magnitude of the task now. The thing is, it’s not just the reading that takes time (I’m loving it, but it takes a while), it’s also writing an article each day listing all 10 articles, with a little comment on each.
Plus, part of the point of the experiment is to see what this amount of reading does to the stats of my own writing… but I’m finding it hard to have the time to do that writing.
There are a few lessons to be learnt here in project planning, commitment and adaptation…
Estimates Are Often Inaccurate
I left corporate culture 3 and a bit years ago and one of the things I can now see clearly about working in companies is the problem with estimates being wildly inaccurate.
