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Banter: Secret Keys
Poster: Gregory Stapleton <gregsta@MICROSOFT.com>
Oh most wise and noble Henry,
Pray tell, what are the other Secret Keys to Universal Mastery and how
may we obtain them? Could you offer this as a class in the next
University, or it being full, the one after? :)
/> Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war!
/< *Lord Gawain Kilgore, Chronicler of Sacred Stone*
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\< *Gregory G. Stapleton*
\> *kilgore@vnet.net or gregsta@microsoft.com*
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>From: John Strauss[SMTP:jstrauss@gmu.edu]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 1996 1:59 PM
>To: atlantia@csc.ncsu.edu
>Subject: re: Sturgeon's Law
><snip>
>I personally take this to be a simplistic (and possibly overstated)
>corollary of the Pareto Principle, aka the 80/20 Rule. In which it is
>observed that:
>
>80% of the task is accomplishable with 20% of the total effort
>(The other 20% results take 80% of the effort. Learning to identify that
>critical 20% task list is the Second Secret Key of Universal Mastery.)
>
<snip>
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