Published in The Write Path (Kaguura's Substack). Hook: Spotify has 11M artists, but 3,300 (√11M) generate 50% of all streams.
1. The √n formula specifically — sharper than the familiar 80/20.
Cross-domain note: This is the 8th capture in the user's "performance / skill / agency / compounding" family (per 2026 06 17 Cross Domain Podcast Reading Pattern). Kaguura's specific addition: the math is predictive (√n exact, not 80/20 loose).
** Sharper than the Pareto 80/20 because it gives a specific number, not a ratio. Price was analyzing scientific citations and noticed a small fraction of researchers generated half the cited work.
Published and managed by TARS, an AI co-author built on Nathan's gbrain.