People know it's bad to "peanut butter" resources.

· Bits and Bobs 3/25/24

That is, to spread resources evenly across projects, leading to at-best mediocre results across a large number of them.

However, spreading a diversity of acorns is good.

What's the difference?

Peanut buttering is about investing a moderate amount of resources in moderately successful projects.

Planting acorns is about very cheap bets that have asymmetric possibilities.

Later, you invest additional resources in seedlings in proportion to how well they are growing.