Section 2 Summary (Articles 9-16)
We are doing a series on the book “Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life” by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi.
We began with 8 articles in Section 1 that covered the basics:
-Real world Networks are NOT Regular or Random; they are messy AND understandable
-Real world Networks are made up of Clusters and Weak Ties
-Clusters are Life and Islands are Death
Here’s the link to the Section 1 Summary.
In this section, we finished the foundation with 8 articles that covered:
-Real world Networks form according to Power Laws due to Growth and Preferential Attachment
-Connectors create a Link between two previously unconnected Nodes
-Hubs create Links between two Nodes through themself
-Hubs form MORE from popularity than any intrinsic value they offer
-The most crucial measure for Networks is Fitness, which Dr. Barabasi doesn’t have a definition
When taken together, these posts reached the following conclusion:
Every person’s issue comes from choosing hubs who use them because they don’t understand fitness.
We will be spending Section 3 proving this point as well as cover the implications to all of us.
Here are the links to the Section 2 articles:
9. Synthesis
10. Separation
11. Connectors
12. Hubs
13. Power Law
16. Fitness
The next section will look at HOW these Networks form as well as their specialized parts!
Next Article: 17. Directed Links