<![CDATA[It's amazing how bad I am at estimating how long simple tasks* will take.]]>It's amazing how bad I am at estimating how long simple tasks* will take.

I had a nearly finished manuscript. I just needed to tidy a few things in it and then upload for review

Two hours tops I told my family.

5.5 hours later...

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/7d94e78b-bd40-4d3f-979b-e635f314ffc3/it-s-amazing-how-bad-i-am-at-estimating-how-long-simple-tasks-will-take.RSS for NodeThu, 30 Apr 2026 17:08:05 GMTThu, 23 Apr 2026 20:29:25 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to It's amazing how bad I am at estimating how long simple tasks* will take. on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:32:36 GMT]]>Inputting the details of 41 coauthors, at least 10 of whom have moved to other institutes and some of whom have been quite tricky to track down has also not been .. helpful.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fediscience.org/users/Ruth_Mottram/statuses/116455922496859019https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fediscience.org/users/Ruth_Mottram/statuses/116455922496859019Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:32:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It's amazing how bad I am at estimating how long simple tasks* will take. on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:31:42 GMT]]>@Ruth_Mottram "Let's go home, Sam" 🥹

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://expressional.social/users/pvrahbek/statuses/116455918976779068https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://expressional.social/users/pvrahbek/statuses/116455918976779068Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:31:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It's amazing how bad I am at estimating how long simple tasks* will take. on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:31:29 GMT]]>@Ruth_Mottram At least it's done! Congrats!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/madjo/statuses/116455918091080964https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/madjo/statuses/116455918091080964Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:31:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It's amazing how bad I am at estimating how long simple tasks* will take. on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:30:11 GMT]]>*Manuscript describes 4 years of work by 5 different Regional Climate Modelling groups over the Arctic and the Antarctic and collectively we produced arounf 8 Petabytes of model output

Not quite LOTR, but not far off.

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