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Comment by regularfry

Here's one way to look at it.

Say you can either spend X amount of effort on a 50% improvement, or you can spend X/10 on each of 10 5% improvements. Sounds the same, right?

It's not. If the smaller increases compound, you get a (1.05^10=) 63% increase out of the latter situation. Plus you don't have to wait for everything to be done to get visible improvements.

parent regularfry 12 years ago

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