#80-20

Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News

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A Glimmer Of Hope

 Once again, we have averted disaster only hours after there appeared to be no prospect for victory. Lurching from crisis to crisis is no way to govern because—sooner or later—one of the crises will not be averted. But there is a valuable lesson in what happened on Saturday:

When push came to shove, nearly 60% of Republicans in the House voted in favor of sanity and order over insanity and chaos.

Even better, 80% of all members of the House voted in favor of sanity and order, while only 20% voted in favor of a senseless shutdown.

          Reflect on those numbers: 80% vs. 20%. Those percentages map neatly onto a widely applicable pattern in life where most natural phenomena demonstrate breakpoints at the 80% vs 20% dividing line. We should not be shocked that 20% of the members of the House would vote in favor of a government shutdown. We should be comforted by the fact that 80% of all House members—and 60% of all Republicans—voted in favor of the rational path forward.

          Until the moment of the successful vote on the continuing resolution on Saturday, the media devoted 80% of its attention to the 20% outliers in the House. The over-emphasis on a small minority of irrational Republicans distorted the reality of the situation in the House and unnecessarily heightened anxiety in a situation that was already anxiety producing enough.

          Here’s my point: When it came time on Saturday for Republicans to declare whether they were part of the chaos caucus or the reality caucus, they chose the latter. When the masks finally dropped away, we learned that there is more ground for hope than most of us assumed. Getting to “Yes” on Saturday was an ugly process. But the fact that we got to “Yes” should give us hope that there remains a central core of rational legislators around which a functioning Congress can be built. It is a small glimmer of hope, but we should welcome any possibility of progress that comes our way.

Luke: [age 13, in 8th grade] "You know Mr. [M]?"

Me: "He's one of your teachers, right?"

Luke: "Yeah. I've been thinking about it. He's a terrible teacher. I mean, I don't learn anything in his class and nobody really listens to him... but he's a really nice guy. I'd probably like him outside of the school."

Me: "Hmmm. I have a personal theory about things like this. Basically most of the people that I've ever worked with are not actually very good at their jobs. At least not when working with me. They may in fact be terrible at their jobs, or just really irritating to work with. But somehow they're still nice people to meet at a party. This has been true for probably 80% of the people I've ever worked with in jobs or even at school."

Luke: "So your theory is that you'd rather meet people at a party than work with them?"

Me: "I guess that's one possible conclusion. But really, I just like working with people who are good at their jobs."

Luke: "I guess that's like Mrs. [P]... honestly, I don't really like her as a person, but she's definitely the best teacher I've had in middle school. I learned a lot in her class."

Me: "I know what you mean. It's funny how that can work out. Sometimes, when you meet that kind of person, and you get to know them, it turns out you really /do/ like them. They just came across the wrong way at first, or you were measuring the wrong dimension about them, or something."

Luke: "I think Mr. [M] probably would be good at a party. I just wish he wasn't teaching a class."

Me: "The real question is: Do other people feel this way about us? Do we fall into /their/ 80%?"

Luke: "And... do we care?"

Me: "We should."

There is the fun quip with programming to cover 80% of your needs with 20% of the work (yeah, the math does not add up here). Using the same numbers, I have more often heard that “I’ve finished the first 80% of the work, now for the second 80%.” I believe the second adage much more - for unexpecteds pop up - but the first has some basic truth in it: focus your time where it matters most. Both are very true for game dev work.

Today, I would propose another variation of the 80-20 made up numbers rules: Of all your efforts, 80% will never be noticed/seen by players unless you really screw it up. A great menu UI simply gets used. Deep combat often turns into one of the few top tier strategies. The electrical outlets in that perfectly modeled house in your game - completely ignored, but something is so very off if they are missing.

So, to all you game devs out there (programmers, art, design, whatever) remember that it is the little things that matter, and it is true that few if any will notice what you spend most of your time doing (curse you elusive game crashing bugs) your users WILL notice if you didn’t do it.

So, what has been happening with Voiceless these past weeks? Programming has been doing tons of essential things... that you wont notice (like being able to sneak, and then loot an enemy without holding both buttons yet not being caught) but without them... well, the game would not be that great. So thanks for reading and following. Our super beta demo went well - there might be a public one within the coming month(s?). And here, since I can’t give tasty cookies online (just those darn tracking ones) have a gif of one of the few things I got to work on that IS presentable and not hidden user expectations.

Sudah pernah mendengar tentang teknik 80-20? Teknik ini juga dikenal sebagai aturan Pareto, dan sangat bermanfaat dalam pengelolaan bisnis secara umum. 

Dengan memahami aturan ini, pelaku usaha dapat mengaplikasikan konsepnya dalam berbagai aspek operasional bisnis, termasuk pengelolaan stok barang di tempat usaha.

Dengan pendekatan yang tepat, pengelolaan persediaan barang dapat berjalan efektif dan efisien.

Sebaliknya, apabila analisis penjualan yang baik tidak dilakukan, keputusan dalam menyediakan persediaan barang dapat menjadi acak, termasuk untuk produk-produk yang memiliki performa penjualan yang kurang baik.

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