![]() Part of the challenge is that everything you say is open to interpretation. To understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to imagine what it could be true of. Learning to retreat when you’ve said something that overstepped the mark rather than ‘digging’ any deeper will save you from damaging a relationship. If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.Īnyone who has ever made a social faux pas has been subject to the above law. It partly explains why many people get so angry on social media. Named after the Italian programmer Alberto Brandolini, this law which is also known as the ‘bullshit asymmetry principle’ is an observation about how much easier it is to spread misinformation on the internet than it is to refute it. The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it. This results in the absurd situation of needing to redo it later because it was done too quickly initially. Invariably, this means work is rushed in a desperate attempt to prove it's being done. The pressure to constantly demonstrate value means that action is prioritised over thinking. There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over.Īnyone who works in a large organisation will be familiar with this law. If you found the above ‘laws’ interesting, read on to learn about seven more. Metcalfe’s Law: ‘The value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of users’. The Backwards Law: ‘The more you pursue something, the less likely you will achieve it’.ħ. Lindy’s Law: ‘The longer something has been around, the more likely it is to continue to be around’.Ħ. Law of Unintended Consequences: ‘When solving one problem, we inadvertently cause others’.ĥ. ![]() Emmett’s Law: ‘The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing it’.Ĥ. Goodhart’s Law: ‘When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure’.ģ. Parkinson’s Law: ‘Work expands to fill the time available’.Ģ. That makes it twenty eight down and fourteen more left to go.įor the newcomers, here are seven laws we’ve already covered in Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 to give you a flavour of what’s to come in this post:ġ. We’re back with the fourth instalment of 42 laws worth knowing.
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