Sublime

The environment typically exhibits a range of regularities or niches, that can be exploited by different action sequences or strategies.

Another, more intuitive way to understand urban scaling is the speed of life in cities. Life in larger cities is generally faster, meaning one can do more, both good and bad, by having more social exchanges over the same amount of time. This speed of social life is intimately connected to the spatial density of many activities, creating spaces and

Putting the pieces of the puzzle together, we find that real networks are governed by two laws: growth and preferential attachment.

In a well-designed network, growth begets growth, creating a healthy and dynamic system.

When we shift our focus from an individual to their network of relationships, we start asking different questions: how the communities an individual belongs are structured, what is their dynamics, how the influence spreads within them, who are the most active and/or valuable members. This shift reveals not our inferred, but our actual, taste.

David Weinberger, the smartest person in the room is the room itself: the network that connects everyone and their knowledge.3

Both are dynamic systems in which the selfish actions of countless individuals—whether they be cells or investors—lead to unpredictable consequences at the system level. In turn, these collective actions and consequences feed back to influence individual actions in endless cycles of adaptation and evolution.

probabilities attach themselves to the descriptions of events and not to events themselves.