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Love how people keep discovering instances of fractal 80/20 and are continually surprised by it.
by joelrunyon 9y ago
Love how people keep discovering instances of fractal 80/20 and are continually surprised by it.
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- parhurs 9y agoTo blindly assume patterns such as "80/20" hold everywhere would be foolish - rather, it is better to empirically verify them first in each case (as done by the article). Further, I wonder what makes you think the writer is surprised in the least...
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- xenihn 9y ago>To blindly assume patterns such as "80/20" hold everywhere would be foolish I see 80/20 EVERYWHERE now. It's hard for me to think of things where it isn't applicable. Maybe I'm just going crazy.
- joelrunyon 9y agoI don't think it's foolish. When it shows up as often it does, it's smart to see if it applies there. You can verify it, but it seems like a smart hypothesis to start with rather than assuming the inverse.
- exolymph 9y agoThe point of heuristics is not that they apply 100% of the time, but that they're correct more often than they're not.
- rytill 9y agoTo a point... but it's so prolific that you should be testing to falsify it most of the time.
- abhiyerra 9y agoEnterprise sales value larger deal size, but fewer deals so this makes sense. Example is Dropbox vs Box, Github Enterprise vs Github, etc. And I agree with the 80/20 but it is contingent on the deal types that companies value.