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I refer to this as the problem of graph design: When designing an app that shapes its user experience off of a social graph, how do you ensure the user ends up with the optimal graph to get the most value out of your product/service?

Ever since I started working on this article, a chart has been haunting me. It plots the percentage of people living alone in a country against that nation’s GDP. There’s a strong correlation. Nations where a fifth of the people live alone, like Denmark and Finland, are a lot richer than nations where almost no one lives alone, like the ones in Lat... See more

Increases the frequency of interactions between nodes and creates more touch-points within the hive. It’s how the hive learns and makes informed decisions in response to a changing external environment.

If I told you that 100% of top performers have one thing in common, you’d probably want to know what that one thing is right? 100% of top performers have one thing in common. They all got the job. And so, in order to change who gets the job, we must focus on who makes it into the room in the first place.

To quote Mike Maples, Jr., “startups start out dead and have to prove they are alive”, and because they paint a picture of a future that does not yet exist, “they have to become a movement”. In other words, they have to galvanise people around a potential that does not exist yet.