Estimating dates in software development is hard

Here is something that I wrote a month back. The initial post has some intro text, but later post has some advice which I felt has worked for me at times. It is a long post (15 min read), so feel free to skim around, and go for text in bold if you want.

https://littleblah.com/post/2019-08-31-perils-of-date-estimations/