article/Useful Laws of the Land

• Author:: Morgan Housel
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  • Okrent’s law: The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true.
  • Yerkes-Dodson law: Performance increases with anxiety and excitement, but only to a point.
  • Vierordt’s law: We underestimate long periods of time and overestimate short periods of time.
  • Cunningham’s law: The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question. It’s to post the wrong answer.
  • Parkinson’s law of triviality: The amount of attention a problem gets is the inverse of its importance.
  • Chekhov’s gun: Remove everything from writing that doesn’t need to be there.
  • Campbell’s law: Social measures of performance distort the performance of the thing you’re measuring.
  • Benford’s law of controversy: Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.