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Why Pods and Peas?

The Pareto principle, also known as the 80/20 rule is a familiar saying that asserts that 80% of outcomes (or outputs) result from 20% of all causes (or inputs) for any given event.

This guiding principle has informed my work for the last decade, focusing on the inputs that will drive the biggest return.

As an interim executive, I don't just bring experience but also leverage by integrating AI agents in to my workflow. This allows me to research faster, test ideas more rigorously and deliver strategic outputs at pace.

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The Italian Economist Vilfredo Pareto observed that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population. He introduced the concept of Pareto efficiency and helped develop the field of microeconomics. He was also the first to claim that income follows a Pareto distribution, which is a power law probability distribution. 

Vilfredo Pareto, tested this observation while harvesting peas in his garden in 1896. He noticed that some pea pods had a lot more peas in them than others. On counting the number of peas in each pea pod he found that 80% of the peas came from only 20% of the pea pods.

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