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Power Laws: How Nonlinear Relationships Amplify Results - Farnam Street

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This brief guide on power laws covers what they are and how we can use them to expand our understanding of the world and get better results.

Mental Models | Reading Time: 15 minutes Power Laws: How Nonlinear Relationships Amplify Results “The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” — Albert Allen Bartlett Defining A Power Law Consider a person who begins weightlifting for the first time. During their initial sessions, they can lift only a small amount of weight. But as they invest more time, they find that for each training session, their strength increases a surprising amount. For a while, they make huge improvements. Eventually, however, their progress slows down. At first,

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