{"id":2214,"date":"2009-09-05T18:51:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T18:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-2214.html"},"modified":"2009-09-05T20:04:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T20:04:48","slug":"optimistic-perfectionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2009\/09\/05\/optimistic-perfectionist\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimistic perfectionist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To an optimistic perfectionist, the initial outlook is always rosy; but the reality is always more complex than expected, and the work always takes longer than anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>(Managers have a love\/hate relationship with us. They love the final results, but they hate the fact that they have to double our initial estimates, add contingency, double them again, and finally add a fudge factor to compensate.)<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/349\/\">xkcd: Success<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To an optimistic perfectionist, the initial outlook is always rosy; but the reality is always more complex than expected, and the work always takes longer than anticipated. (Managers have a love\/hate relationship with us. They love the final results, but they hate the fact that they have to double our initial estimates, add contingency, double &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2009\/09\/05\/optimistic-perfectionist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Optimistic perfectionist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1659,1660],"class_list":["post-2214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-optimism","tag-perfectionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}