This is an excellent visual!
As effort increases, the value must increase exponentially to justify the same priority. My colleague Pierre shared this framework with a helpful visual, and even a mathematic equation: Priority = Value/Effort^2
Tore • Ruthless prioritization: A startup’s best friend
Paul Graham on how life is not linear, but rather exponential:
"Teachers and coaches implicitly told us the returns were linear. "You get out," I heard a thousand times, "what you put in." They meant well, but this is rarely true. If your product is only half as good as your competitor's, you don't get half as many customers. You get no customers, a
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