I think he means that the outcome is not required to be proportional to the input. I have a couple examples of my own that I can use to demonstrate. The busin

I think he means that the outcome is not required to be proportional to the input. I have a couple examples of my own that I can use to demonstrate. The business that pays my rent took me the better part of a week to build and launch 3 years ago. I've gone literally months without opening the project in an IDE, marketing it, or thinking about it beyond answering an email or two. And the profits keep rolling in. Some years back I was part of a 6 man dev team at a 20 person startup, burning through 60 hour weeks and $8M in funding to build the mother of all SaaS products, which over the course of its life brought in roughly the same amount of revenue as the product mentioned above. So, as the grandparent said, there's no reason to expect that effort and outcome are coupled in any way.