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I also look at it the other way: 1% of people have the required atributes (talent, motivation) to produce something that 99% of the population want to consume.
by zerohm 13y ago
I also look at it the other way: 1% of people have the required atributes (talent, motivation) to produce something that 99% of the population want to consume.
It's probably lower in other endevours, e.g., less than 1% of people can play basketball at a level that the average person would actively choose to watch on a regular basis.
- dredmorbius 13y agoSturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crud. Morbius's Law: At Internet scale Sturgeon's law is six-sigma compliant: 99.99966% of everything is crud. Your filtering / content surfacing algorithms had best take this into consideration.
- wiredfool 13y agoSturgeon's law is here, it's just not evenly distributed.
- dredmorbius 13y agoWell played, sir, well played.
- nhaehnle 13y agoOn the other hand, the vast majority of the population produces something that somebody else is interested in. It's just that not everybody contributes everywhere. Specialization is useful.