Poioumenon A Definition en.wiktionary.org A specific type of metafiction in which the story is about the process of creation (sometimes the creation of the story itself). Bo Burnham: Inside literaturemakingartself-reference
Hofstadter's Law An Idea by Douglas Hofstadter en.wikipedia.org It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. On the "Building" of Software and WebsitesDeadlines are bullshitParkinson's Law recursionself-referenceplanningtime
When engineers refuse to leave well enough alone In a column entitled "March of the Engineers," the humorist and social critic Russell Baker lamented the complexity and sophistication of his office's new telephone system...Baker closed his column by defining the new telephone system as "another bleak example of the horrors created when engineers refuse to leave well enough alone." In The Design of Everyday Things, Donald Norman wrote that "new telephone systems have proven to be another excellent example of incomprehensible design." Henry Petroski, The Evolution of Useful Things The Design of Everyday Things uxfeatures