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Frank Lee's avatar

Oh golly... these are great. I am saving to reference.

I love these human behavior principles and find most of them to be accurate.

I would add the Pareto Principle: that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (the "vital few"). Also, 20% of the problem tends to attract 80% of the effort... and thus results in 10% of the solution. Together, with the Shirky Principle, it seems to explain why none of our big social and economic problems never get solved. Doing real root-cause analysis and focusing like a laser on those causes is something we Americans seems to suck at.

By the way Brad, you are my oldest son's age, and although I think he is a smart and knowledgeable guy, I would have pegged you are being older given your collective wisdom demonstrated in your writing.

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mark wells's avatar

This was easily the most interesting read of the day.

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