Sublime

What makes a tragedy truly dense? Martin Grandjean analyzed network densities across Shakespeare's works: • Hamlet: 39% density • Titus Andronicus: 50% density • Antony & Cleopatra: 17% density Literary genius is not without its pa... See more

These are the scales of modern human networks, and it’s Dunbar’s number multiplied by millions. In these large-scale communities, standards and self-governance can’t be maintained by people simply running around and talking to each other. Instead, the builders of these networked products must create features that nudge the interactions in the right

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While Path did indeed fail as a distribution provider, I would argue that keeping the network’s size small can still have benefits in line with my signaling theory: Deliberately limiting the number of people who can join a network (e.g. by charging a membership fee) creates scarcity which in turns makes the network more interesting. Network members... See more