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the productivity of an average article (and of each contributor) increases superlinearly, at least in terms of audience reach.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
How to Walk and Talk: Everything We Know
How to plan and organize a walk-and-talk, including choosing participants, setting the duration and distance, arranging meals and lodging, and managing logistics and communications.
kk.orgKleiber’s law proved that as life gets bigger, it slows down. But West’s model demonstrated one crucial way in which human-built cities broke from the patterns of biological life: as cities get bigger, they generate ideas at a faster clip. This is what we call “superlinear scaling”: if creativity scaled with size in a straight, linear fashion, you
... See moreSteven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
as cities get bigger, they generate ideas at a faster clip. This is what we call “superlinear scaling”:
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
Nadia Eghbal: It’s not just the discovery of knowledge (i.e., learning new things) that’s easier now, but also the validation (where your peers, rather than an accredited institution, decide whether your insights are worth discussing) and distribution of knowledge. Sharing new ideas previously required working with centralized gatekeepers, like a... See more
future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
9. Companies, cities, currencies, communities, and countries are all becoming networks: We should start thinking of collections of people—whether communities, cities, companies, or countries—as cohesive agents unto themselves, less constrained by territoriality and with different layers aligned with one another in shifting combinations.
Parag Khanna, Balaji S. Srinivasan • Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Web3 Are Already Reshaping the World
The Overedge Catalog: The Future of Research Organizations
arbesman.netIt's a valuable service, and that value is compounding: physical supply chains are getting more complex, but so are software and service supply chains, so there's an increasing amount of specialized knowledge in the world that needs to be intermittently accessed. That kind of access can be bought wholesale, but sometimes it's only necessary a la... See more
Byrne Hobart • The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack
The Allee effect → The Network Effect Allee Threshold → Tipping Point Carrying capacity → Saturation