Planning fallacy in the NYTimes

Includes the Kahneman anecdote.

http://​​www.nytimes.com/​​2011/​​09/​​16/​​opinion/​​brooks-the-planning-fallacy.html?hp

This is a repeated theme by Brooks—his book The Social Animal gives an engaging overview of much of the recent literature in psychology, including a lot of the stuff we discuss here.