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subpixel space • After Authenticity
One hypothesis on why social networks tend to lose heat at scale is that this type of old money can't be cleared out, and new money loses the incentive to play the game.
Eugene Wei • Status as a Service (StaaS) — Remains of the Day
The open-ended exponential growth of cities stands in marked contrast to what we see in biology: most organisms, like us, grow rapidly when young but then slow down, cease growing, and eventually die.
Geoffrey West • Scale
It traditionally assumed that firms were independent, and so changes would be independent, and so their sizes and aggregate effects would be distributed normally.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
That is, we may be able to graph how ideas slowly accrete into architectures of individual and collective knowledge.
Perry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
In a well-designed network, growth begets growth, creating a healthy and dynamic system.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
We would now like to account for the behavior of collective growth in a system of cities and the pattern of relative fluctuations. Specifically, we would like to understand at a fundamental level the slowness and persistence of these deviations from scaling as well as get a handle on their typical magnitudes.