The Power Law of Good Behavior

Power-law — “A functional relationship between two quantities, where a relative change in one quantity results in a proportional relative change in the other quantity, independent of the initial size of those quantities: one quantity varies as a power of another.” (related: Pareto distribution; Pareto principle — “for many events, roughly 80% of th

The Law of the Vital Few*: In many settings, 80 percent of a given effect is due to just 20 percent of the possible causes.