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Joss Colchesterlinkedin.comIt won’t necessarily apply on the scale of modern urban societies, though it will apply at the level of your personal network.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
A 2011 study of Facebook found that, of its 721 million users at the time, the average number of links from one arbitrarily selected person to another was 4.74—less, even, than the “six degrees of separation”
Joshua Wolf Shenk • Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs
Look, sometimes you have to make quick decisions. You can’t just have humans make them; you have to combine human and machine methods.”
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Dissipative structures come in many different shapes and sizes, but they all cycle around stable dynamical states of order that complexity scientists call attractors.
Bobby Azarian • The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
Chaotic systems come in two shapes. Level one chaos is chaos that does not react to predictions about it.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
Sociologists call a cluster of groups connected in this way a percolating vulnerable cluster, a clump of strongly connected groups with weak connections to other groups. Taken together, they share a perfect mix of thresholds at the point where they connect, allowing for a chain reaction. A shock, as they call it, that begins in such a cluster, or
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