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Unread 16-01-2016, 10:23
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Re: build season needs to be longer.

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Originally Posted by EricH View Post
Could you? Yes.

But there is another concept that gets lost to people. Parkinson's Law, to be exact. "Work expands to fill time allotted" is the usual short phrasing. And what that means is that you will invariably think you have more time to spread out... but you'll really use that time to upgrade your robot instead of relaxing.
This is 100% true. For our FTC season we seem to manage to do less in FTC than FRC over a period of time that is twice as long.
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