4 definitions by billbrown
The main source of value or importance in something being considered. The Pareto principle is that 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes, sometimes shortened as "the 80/20 rule"
YOU: This yard is full of weeds. It'll take us two days to clear them out.
ME: Let's just do the Pareto part surrounding the walkway: that should only take 4 hours and 48 minutes.
ME: Let's just do the Pareto part surrounding the walkway: that should only take 4 hours and 48 minutes.
by billbrown October 10, 2023
A pompous explanation of context by an anonymous social media user, usually to someone with actual expertise or experience.
ProfessBioMIT: @BioLabFella That's a fascinating idea about bioenergetics. I wonder how adjacency affects the signal.
John623498770: @BioLabFella @ProfessBioMIT Cells are almost always packed tightly so adjacency should be frequent.
ProfessBioMIT: @BioLabFella Ugh, I just got randosplained. Maybe I should call you at the lab and take this fascinating conversation private.
John623498770: @BioLabFella @ProfessBioMIT Cells are almost always packed tightly so adjacency should be frequent.
ProfessBioMIT: @BioLabFella Ugh, I just got randosplained. Maybe I should call you at the lab and take this fascinating conversation private.
by billbrown December 30, 2022
The deluge of messages in Slack that cause a particular one to get lost thanks to Slack's feature of marking a message as read once it is glanced at.
by billbrown February 7, 2022
by billbrown September 2, 2022