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Posts tagged: efficiency

Reversals

When do we call something practical? Or inefficient? It can seem impractical to take courses in the humanities, in which you encounter nonphysical facts and work with questions and answers that resist easy definition, but at some point, the comfort you have developed with these things may help you in a very practical way. It […]

Eighty twenty-ing

It’s called “eighty-twenty” or the Pareto Principle: you get 80% of the bang from 20% of the buck. That’s one way to think of it. Here are some others: the top 20% of your customers provide 80% of your orders the worst 20% of your clients provide 80% of you headaches (OK, that might be […]