andreas comments on A "Failure to Evaluate Return-on-Time" Fallacy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: andreas 07 September 2010 08:27:22PM 3 points [-]

I feel like a lot of us have those opportunities - we see that a place we're putting a small amount of effort is accounting for most of our success, but we don't say - "Okay, that area that I'm giving a little attention that's producing massive results? All attention goes there now."

If you are giving some area a little attention, this does not imply that more attention would get you proportionally better results; you may run into diminishing returns quickly. Of course, for any given situation, it is worth understanding whether this is the case or not.