I really think articles like this are trite. We all know about power law distributions, 80-20 rule etc. etc. We all know they occur frequently in all kinds of systems. We don't need a sizable essay to explain such basic principles.
Annoyed enough to post (yes I know I'm shadow-banned) because this passage is complete nonsense:
"However, we can reduce this unpredictability by removing focus from the types of investments that almost never have outsized payoffs, and by adding focus to the types that often do. By trying to be acutely aware of what activities have a high likelihood of ending up on the far left of our personal power law curves, we can give ourselves a much better chance to see great returns."
I hope this goes well for you... seems like a real useful app, with a nice tight scope, nice execution, pretty, and addressing a pain point. Ticks all the boxes in my book.
Given that the domain name/service name is ambiguous, I'd like to see an explanatory byline under "Small Design Services", something like "pairing freelance developers with small businesses"
random other first-glance suggestion, change the .ico to the same green as your base colour... your app got lost in my tabs and I had to hunt to find it
looks intuitive and easy to use on first view though
What scala really suffers from is wasting time on academic navel-gazing on theoretical aspects, when much work still needs to be done on tools and docs
Totally with the author. I think these realisations come with age (they did with me anyway). Not that my time is worth huge money or anything...
There is of course another parameter in the trade-off which the author ignores: optics. Depending on one's position, it may be important to be seen to be frugal. For one thing, as @gfodor says above, 'frugality breeds more frugality' [through the organisation etc.]. For another, I would think that dispensing with frugality inhibits the moral authority of a person in authority who must periodically cut costs, cancel bonuses etc. etc.
Gotta love the social media "experts" who the journos talk to for these articles. Digg's problem was real simple. They made fundamental changes, the community hated these changes, but Digg didn't row back. Whoever was running the place should be mopping a floor right now.