Engelbart's Bootstrapping concept identifies the general, and particular, meaning of the observation with regards to rate and performance: a quantity, amount, or degree of something measured per unit of something else.
[1] That is, Engelbart's law is not limited to an increase in the acquisition, or use of, or quantity of knowledge, nor of the extent or depth of participation among individuals or teams, nor of the period-to-period change.
The law is independent of the domain of performance and the quantity, amount, or degree on which one chooses a measure.
Humans have long performed at exponential levels, and in widely varying contexts and domains.
The log-log chart (time, TEF) illustrates exponential performance extending over many domains and over hundreds of years.
[7] In these latter two references Lienhard explores, and discards, the influence of an urgent necessity as a necessary driver to such performance.
It has long been the fashion to talk of human performance as if it were dependent on a particular socio-technology fabric.
[13] As derived from the above, candidate metrics would necessarily: In addition to the above acronyms, the following represents the performance of ABC-level Activities by their respective letters:
Comparing these two insufficient candidates illustrates the same key aspect underpinning Engelbart's law: human organization and directed activity are the essential elements to our performance.
Various complex power functions, incorporating the effect of efforts at each of the ABC-level Activities were considered as candidates.
[example needed] Although levels of exponential rates of performance, over many time periods and in many domains, with respect to quantity, extent, or degree, is well-documented by Lienhard and many others, modern and real-time ongoing of Bootstrapping levels of performance remain difficult to find.
In this way, to fully use A-, B-, and C-level Activities, and achieve bootstrapping-levels of performance, we may more easily and readily redefine our measures until we have a suitable basis for such performance:[attribution needed] Engelbart, in writing and working, intended to apply this method of working to all domains of human endeavor, from the individual to the whole species, in private or public service [attribution needed].