 Sturgeon's Law. 90% of everything is crud. Often now quoted as crap. Crud, crap, whatever negative word you want. Garbage, low quality. 90% of everything. This was started by science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon. Although many authors have said this throughout history, but he's the one who got his name attached to it. Science fiction writer was repeatedly told how science fiction is crap. It's just it's not a respectable genre of literature. And so he sort of his defense of science fiction was like well 90% of everything is bad. So yeah 90% of science fiction is bad, but that's the same with everything. With all genres, all types of products, even people he said. It's just 90% bad. So you know a couple things I can take from this. One is it's pretty easy to get a law. You know you can you can just say something and maybe somebody will name a law after you. You know so you know you never know what's going to come out of your mouth that you know you have some observation that just happens to hit at just the right time and be be catchy and just fit in just the right way and you can get so-and-so's law named after you. So there you go. But the other thing it makes me think that we if we can really take this in and really accept this way of looking at things I think it can be helpful for simplifying our life. Because we have so much input so much is coming in we have so many things to deal with and I think it's often so hard to just say I don't care about that that's irrelevant. It's like I feel I feel kind of off even responding like that a lot of the time because it seems like well you know am I am I dismissing this thing unfairly am I am I wrong I mean am I missing something important the fear of the fear of missing out that you know oh if I don't if I don't take this in if I don't deal with this if I don't you know see what it's all about and join in maybe I'll be missing out on something good and so it's so it's hard to just say no as like you know I know I just have no interest in this I'm not going to bring it into my life I'm just going to completely ignore it I don't need to explain in detail why I don't need to you know to justify why I choose to ignore this I simply choose to ignore it it's just not relevant for me being a filter it's like it's I see Sturgeon's law as a reminder to be a strong filter we need a strong filter in terms of what we're going to let in most things are not worth letting in we have to be very selective about what we are even going to deal with and we have to be ready and able to turn away the anything that would attempt to take to to take some time and energy from us there's just so many demands in all directions you know care about this pay attention to this this is important this is good this is fun this is exciting this is an important new thing it's hard to know what is the 10% that's good and that maybe is the real challenge but just even having the idea that okay at least okay I don't necessarily know which 10% is good and which 90% is no good but just knowing that it's probably something around that it's that's probably the approximate ratio of useful versus useless and if we can look at things that way it can maybe help us to be more ready to say no maybe it's even good maybe it's even good and I'm wrong to dismiss it but since 90% is not really worth my time I am comfortable making the gamble that no I don't need to put my attention on this particular thing it's true that you know being too ready to dismiss things can leave us it can bring the risk that we do dismiss something good so that is that's true but I think that the fear of missing something good is so strong that it leads us to let in so many things it's up to us to be a strong filter to be selective very selective about what we choose to let in because there's already enough to deal with and we have to find some ways to stem the flood of new things so I'd be curious to hear what you think of this idea also if you have your own law please let us know and do you think that 90% is that the right number is it 99% is it 50% what is the percent of things that are actually useful I'm be curious to hear your thoughts