Daljit Dhadwal

Ideas, books, software, and other useful tools

The planning fallacy

From the Wikipedia article on the planning fallacy: The planning fallacy is a tendency for people and organizations to underestimate how long they will need to complete a task, even when they have past experience of similar tasks over-running. The term was first proposed in a 1979 paper by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. Since […]

The autosum keyboard shortcut in Excel

Pressing the Alt key and equal sign key (i.e., first press the Alt key and then while keeping it pressed, press the equal key) will autosum a contiguous range of cells. In the following example, the numbers 10, 20, 30 are typed into cells B2, B3, and B4 respectively. Then in cell B5, first the […]