this shit has never been explained to me i had to figure it out for myself and i feel like a raving lunatic trying to explain it to other folks

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i feel like this all sounds very common sense to most people but if that stuff just does not come naturally to you it does not occur that you would need to say, keep a timesheet to refer to when someone asks how long a thing will take

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i mean this as a more meta thing than breaking down into tasks. like just the act of knowing how long a task takes is something that has to be learned. learning to allocate for emergencies and things out of your control. knowing what the limits of a sustainable workload are.

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A few posts later, Judge Reyes *literally read to him from the dictionary.*

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Finally came up with a phrase that's normal in my household, but probably not in others. I tell my kids not to "Luke Skywalker" things. It's basically "don't pick that up and immediately do something unintentionally dangerous with it.

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