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O Rly?: Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means by

I purposely did not read Adam’s post before writing mine, so apologies for anything repeated. I wanted to preserve my ideas about the book while writing.

Before I vent my frustration at the oversights of this book, I’ll give you a fairly unbiased summary of Barabasi’s book. Linked gives readers a detailed account [...]

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Order from chaos and stuff like that

“Then suddenly, all the fireflies began to switch their flourescent tails on and off at exactly the same moment, turning the beacon-shaped tree into a huge pulsing light bulb for miles.” Suddenly, a lightbulb from nature. Order from non-order. This example is in the mix of many examples, from the similarity between our social networks, [...]