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diff --git a/INTERESTING_ARTICLES.org b/INTERESTING_ARTICLES.org index f87c9f2d..4394a1b0 100644 --- a/INTERESTING_ARTICLES.org +++ b/INTERESTING_ARTICLES.org @@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law][Sturgeon's law]] is an adage stating "ninety percent of everything is crap". - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schedule_chicken][Schedule chicken]] is when two or more parties working towards a common goal all claim to be holding to their original schedules for delivering their part of the work, even after they know those schedules are impossible to meet. Each party hopes the other will be the first to have their failure exposed. +See also [[misc/greek-task-list.md][Greek task list]]. + Sources: - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paradoxes][List of paradoxes]] diff --git a/misc/greek-task-list.md b/misc/greek-task-list.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8cee5045 --- /dev/null +++ b/misc/greek-task-list.md @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +# Greek task list + +https://infosec.exchange/users/masek/statuses/115507451151625748 + +## Orphean task + +When you almost succeed, but lose everything the moment you turn around to check your progress. + +## Daedalean task + +When you’re forced to design something brilliant and functional… that you yourself will inevitably become trapped inside. + +## Medusan task + +When your project becomes so horrifying that everyone involved freezes in place rather than deal with it. + +## Tantaline task + +When success is right there, but bureaucracy or budget cuts keep snatching it away at the last moment, forever. + +## Pandoran task + +When fixing one small issue unleashes a thousand new ones, but hey — at least there’s still hope somewhere in the ticket backlog. + +## Odyssean task + +When the assignment technically has an end, but it’s buried under so many side quests that you forget what the original goal was. + +## Narcissian task + +When the entire effort is about maintaining appearances rather than achieving anything of substance. + +## Promethean task + +When you give people a powerful new tool that could transform their work — and are punished eternally for doing so. + +## Orestian task + +When the mess you’re cleaning up is the direct result of the last cleanup you performed. + +## Thesean task + +When the only way to finish is to disassemble everything piece by piece — until you’re no longer sure if what’s left is the same project you started. + +## Achillean task + +When your work is flawless except for that one fatal oversight that will, inevitably, destroy you. + +## Penelopean task + +When you diligently undo by night what you accomplish by day, just to keep the stakeholders pacified. + +## Midasean task + +When everything you touch turns into paperwork, compliance documents, or gold-plated nonsense nobody actually needs. + +## Gordian task + +Not intended to be actually done, but violence is the answer. |