My Fifteen Favorite Laws
Tuten’s
Law (2016)
Competence will be punished usually with more work.
Tuten’s
Law of committees (2017) The people with whom it is easiest to work are those who least make the work about themselves.
Moore’s
Law
(1965) – The number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit
(silicon chip) doubles every two years.
Gordon E. Moore co-founder of Intel
Parkinson’s
Law
(1955) - Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Parkinson’s
Law of Triviality (1957) - The time spent on any item of
the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. By C. Northcutt
Parkinson (I know he has two laws)
Law of unintended consequences
- The actions of people (and especially of governments) always have
effects that are unanticipated or unintended. These often outweigh the intended
effects.
Godwin’s
Law - As an online
discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or
Hitler approaches 1.
Clarke's Third Law - Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Goodhart's law – When a measure becomes a target,
it ceases to be a good measure.
Bradford's law – a pattern
described by Samuel C. Bradford in 1934 that estimates the exponentially
diminishing returns of extending a library search.
Dunning–Kruger
effect – a
cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority,
mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is
attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their
mistakes.
Hanlon's razor – inspired by Occam's razor -
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
stupidity."
Peter Principle – "In a hierarchy, every
employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
Postel's law – Be conservative in what you do;
be liberal in what you accept from others.
Technology
Law of Amplification: While technology helps education where
it’s already doing well, technology does little for mediocre educational
systems; and in dysfunctional schools, it can cause outright harm. Originated with Kentaro
Toyama
A partial
list of other eponymous laws can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adages_named_after_people
