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Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
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Putting the pieces of the puzzle together, we find that real networks are governed by two laws: growth and preferential attachment.
Jennifer Frangos • Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
The fancy term for this is preferential attachment, defined as: “the more connected a node is, the more likely it is to receive new links.”
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies
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as cities grow and their networks evolve, the area or volume of the networks needed to keep them functionally connected tends to become smaller on a per capita basis. For example, in larger cities more people can share the same bus or segment of road or sewer pipe.