Principles I Find Interesting

I think the bloggers account for "Parkinson's Law" is too simplistic. If it were just about procrastinators, it wouldn't be as useful. Deadlines (even artificial ones) work because we can always make a system a little cleaner, a little more efficient, with fewer bugs, well past the point where that work has any value.

>What is it? The simplest answer is most often correct.

Isn't it: for a given outcome, reached by two hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions is usually correct? Which isn't always necessarily the same as "simplest is usually correct", or at least how I commonly see it deployed.

I like Kant's response: "The variety of beings should not rashly be diminished".