The Formula
by Albert-László Barabási · first published 2018
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…people. Just as in the Brain. There is no one extraordinary neuron. Book recos - Niall Ferguson - The Square and the Tower - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07KKYostAJ0 Albert-László Barabási - The Formula Moises Naim - The end of power The Hierarchies of Skill and Domination will continue to face major pressure the likes they haven't seen in the past from ever changing network configurations.
on “Being OK with not being extraordinary” ↗…some valuable skills, but especially in careers where the performance can’t be ordered (e.g: art, design) the only thing that matters is to know people who are well known. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Formula-Universal-Laws-Success/dp/031...
on “Network Determines Success More Than People Realize” ↗…thesis of a recent book [0], summarized, more or less, as: "When there is no objective method to rate performance, then the social network becomes the measure of performance." [0] https://www.amazon.com/Formula-Universal-Laws-Success/dp/031...
on “After 50 years, Michael Heizer is finally ready to unveil City, his life's work” ↗I don't think anything would stop someone from publishing a great paper in physics or computer science on their own in 2021. Albert-Laszlo Barabasi's book The Formula is kind of about this. While nothing would stop an individual from publishing such a paper, outside a major company or university setting an individual wouldn't have the network to notice the paper basically.
on “OSSU: Path to a free, self-taught education in computer science” ↗