Sublime

Early internet users even made up a term, called “Godwin’s Law”—the observation that every heated digital conversation devolves into comparisons with Nazis—to describe the vicious debates that happened on Usenet in the 1980s.

In other words, the higher the listing price—the first price they saw—the higher the estimated price.

Figure 22. The additional effect of personalization is highly dependent on the scale of your database: the larger the database, the more you can justify investing in personalization.

sentences behaved like a mathematical multifractal:

Every day, I track the digital trails that people leave as they make their way across the web. From the buttons or keys we click or tap, I try to understand what we really want, what we will really do, and who we really are.

Any system described by a power law, where mean, median, and mode are so different, has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average. This sounds strange to many ears, as we are used to a world where average means middle, which is to say where average is the same as the median. You can see this

“Are they real?