I am the law, and you can be too.
The math doesn’t care about your feelings. It cares about your compounding.
In 1963, a guy named Derek de Solla Price found a thing. The square root of the people in any domain do half the work.
Not 80/20. Worse.
100-person company → 10 people drive half the output
10,000 scientists → 100 produce half the cited research
30 million U.S. firms → ~5,500 generat…
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