Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Robert Roskam @raiderrobert@mastodon.social

11/20/2025, 2:22:18 PM

Public

Parkinson's Law will eat your roadmap alive, if you let it.

"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."

Setting time expectations for how long something 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 take tends to make it how long it 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 take.

I bet you've experienced this:
- meetings that expand to fill the scheduled duration regardless of agenda or need
- features always somehow take the full sprint when given two weeks
- projects scoped to take place during Q2 mysteriously require the entire quarter

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