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Darius Foroux
Personal blog · dariusforoux.comproductivitycareer
Darius Foroux is a personal blog at dariusforoux.com about productivity and career. Since 2017, 35 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “Price's Law: Why Only a Few People Generate Half of the Results”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Hi, I'm Darius Foroux, author of this blog. I’ve been sharing weekly ideas to become smarter and wealthier since 2015.
Most-linked posts?
- Price's Law: Why Only a Few People Generate Half of the Results11 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2018-06-02
- Here’s Why Time Off Work Actually IMPROVES Your Work and Life2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-04-16
What Hacker News says?
Other good senior people in the team see your performance. In big companies this is normal as nobody will want to upset other people feeling. Managers will also refrain from firing because it reflects on them badly, stop them from building an empire, and hiring is hard. I am finding that Price's law[1] is very true in programming. You have two pizza teams that have 1-3 top performers carry the rest of the team/proje…
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on “Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?”Submitted Impatience: The Pitfall of Every Ambitious Person as a story · 241 points
HN discussionPower laws apply to individual output as well: https://dariusforoux.com/prices-law/
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on “Individuals Matter”Submitted Don’t Quit When It Gets Hard as a story · 230 points
HN discussionPrice's Law is "50% of the work is done by the square root of the total number of people who participate in the work." https://dariusforoux.com/prices-law/ https://routine.co/blog/what-is-the-prices-law-and-why-is-it...
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on “New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike”Submitted Skill Stacking: A Practical Strategy to Achieve Career Success as a story · 189 points
HN discussionYou have encountered Price’s Law. https://dariusforoux.com/prices-law/ > Price’s law says that 50% of the work is done by the square root of the total number of people who participate in the work.
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on “27 years ago, Steve Jobs said the best employees focus on content, not process”Submitted We Can Achieve Anything If We Stop Trying To Do Everything as a story · 180 points
HN discussionhttps://dariusforoux.com/ on productivity, self improvement. https://fs.blog/ mental models, critical thinking.
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on “Ask HN: What niche blogs are worthwhile to follow?”Submitted ‘Why Am I Not Rich and Famous?’ The Delusion of Our Times as a story · 58 points
HN discussion> "I am a 10X dev and I don;t want the union to pay me the same as my colleague that is a lesser developer then me." This is a valid concern for highly-paid/specialized individuals, IMO. Price's Law ( https://dariusforoux.com/prices-law/ ): 50% of the work is done by the square root of the total number of people who participate in the work.
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on “Google Culture War Escalates as Era of Transparency Wanes”Submitted Price's Law: Why Only a Few People Generate Half of the Results as a story · 57 points
HN discussionThanks! This reminds me of an article that I'm going to curate today: "Being Different Beats Being Better" http://dariusforoux.com/being-different-beats-being-better/
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on “Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell”Submitted Things About Life I Wish I Had Known 10 Years Ago as a story · 36 points
HN discussionPrice's Law says no: > 50% of the work is done by the square root of the total number of people who participate in the work. https://dariusforoux.com/prices-law/
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on “How solid is Tim’s plan to redecentralize the web?”Submitted What No One Tells You About Early Retirement as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWell if you think about it, it's not that hard to imagine how it happens. First, you have Price's Law [0] which states that half the work is done by the square root of the number of people. This in itself already implies a lot of useless people, especially at a company the size of Intel. You might also have whole orgs/departments where pretty much everyone is phoning it in, so that would drive it up as well. The way…
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on “Intel is dying and we can’t save it”Submitted Here’s Why Time Off Work Actually IMPROVES Your Work and Life as a story · 4 points
HN discussionwait wait wait. You're proposing that the executives don't know what recruiting practices their company is employing to sustain talent for their operations? Cmon, that's ridiculous. They would be terrible executives if this were true. Most people I meet agree that recruiting is broken. A huge part of this is regulation. The education system is integrated into the backbone of society which is maintained through regul…
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on “Tim Cook explains why you don’t need a college degree to be successful”Submitted The 5 Levels of Wealth as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThat one, yes, generalized to any organization. https://dariusforoux.com/prices-law/
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on “Google to pause all hiring for two weeks”Submitted The Purpose of Life Is Not Happiness: It’s Usefulness as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSee Prices Law https://dariusforoux.com/prices-law/ The key question is how to you find & keep the 100 or so key people from a 7,500 company when reducing numbers.
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on “You can fire 80% of software engineers and the company will survive”Submitted How to Get Rid of the Thoughts That Are Clogging Your Brain as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis might also be a bit of Price's Law in play (not saying that you aren't a 10x developer)... https://dariusforoux.com/prices-law/ > Price’s law says that 50% of the work is done by the square root of the total number of people who participate in the work. Price's square root law: Empirical validity and relation to Lotka's law https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/030645... (behind various paywalls…
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on “a thread”Submitted I spent my whole career building passive income. Here's what I got wrong as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted No, Blogging Is Not Dying Anytime Soon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adapt Framework: On Dealing with Technological Changes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Get Back on Track as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Extrapolating Your Perceptions as a story · 2 points
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