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The 80/20 rule is basically the power law which is one of my favorite laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law



It is also one of the most abused rules, often used to justify extremely sloppy "big picture thinking".


Yeah, but 80% of the time, the sloppy thinking is right.




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