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@@ -185,50 +215,63 @@ MY "WHY" FOR MAKING THIS:
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- Sir Isaac Newton was pretty sure he was a smart cookie.
- I mean, after inventing calculus and a theory of gravity,
- he should be clever enough to do some financial investing, right?
- Anyway,
- long story short, he lost $4,600,000 (in today's dollars)
- in the nationwide speculation frenzy known as the South Sea Bubble of 1720.
+ Sir Isaac Newton was pretty sure he was a
+
+ smart cookie. I mean, after inventing calculus and
+
+ a theory of gravity, he should be clever enough to do
+
+ some financial investing, right? Anyway, long story short, he
+
+ lost $4,600,000 (in today's dollars) in the nationwide
+
+ speculation frenzy known as the South Sea Bubble of 1720.
-
+
- As Mr. Newton later said:
- “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.”
+ As Mr. Newton later said: “I can calculate the motion of
+
+ heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.”
- yeah sucks for him →
+ yeah sucks for him →
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-
-
- Of course, that's not the only time markets, institutions, or entire democracies went haywire —
- the madness of crowds.
- And yet, just when you lose hope in humanity,
- you see citizens coordinating to rescue each other in hurricanes,
- communities creating solutions to problems,
- people fighting for a better world —
- the wisdom of crowds!
+
-
+ Of course, that's not the only
+
+ time markets, institutions, or entire
+
+ democracies went haywire — the madness of
+
+ crowds. And yet, just when you lose hope in humanity,
+
+ you see citizens coordinating to rescue each other in
+
+ hurricanes, communities creating solutions to problems,
+
+ people fighting for a better world — the wisdom of crowds!
- But why do some crowds turn to madness, or wisdom?
- No theory can explain everything,
- but I think a new field of study, network science,
- can guide us! And its core idea is this:
- to understand crowds, we should look not at the individual people, but at...
+
- ...their connections. →
+ But why do some crowds turn to madness, or wisdom? No theory
+
+ can explain everything, but I think a new field of study,
+
+ network science, can guide us! And its core idea is this: to
+
+ understand crowds, we should look not at the individual
+
+ people, but at...
+
+ ...their connections. →
-
@@ -743,7 +786,6 @@ MY "WHY" FOR MAKING THIS:
Too many connections and complex ideas get crushed by groupthink.
The trick is to build a small world network, the optimal mix of
bonding and bridging: e pluribus unum.
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+
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+ From Newton to NASA to
- From Newton to NASA to network science, we've covered a lot here today.
- Long story short, the madness of crowds is not necessarily due to the
- individual people, but due to how we're trapped in a network's sticky web.
+ network science, we've covered a lot here
+
+ today. Long story short, the madness of crowds
+
+ is not necessarily due to the individual people, but due
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+ to how we're trapped in a network's sticky web.
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+
- That does NOT mean abandoning personal responsibility,
- for we're also the weavers of that web.
- So, improve your contagions:
- be skeptical of ideas that flatter you,
- spend time understanding complex ideas.
- And, improve your connections: bond with similar folk,
- but also build bridges across cultural/political divides.
+ That does NOT mean abandoning personal responsibility, for
+
+ we're also the weavers of that web. So, improve your contagions:
+
+ be skeptical of ideas that flatter you, spend time understanding
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+ complex ideas. And, improve your connections: bond with similar
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+ folk, but also build bridges across cultural/political divides.
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+ We can weave a wise web. Sure, it's harder than doodling
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+ lines on a screen...
- We can weave a wise web.
- Sure, it's harder than doodling lines on a screen...
...but so, so worth it.
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+
@@ -1016,11 +1069,9 @@ MY "WHY" FOR MAKING THIS:
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- Book:
+ Book:
Connected
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by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler (2009).
A layperson-friendly yet rigorous tour of how networks affect our lives,
for good and ill. They summarize the science, and also present some of their original findings,
@@ -1034,11 +1085,9 @@ MY "WHY" FOR MAKING THIS:
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- Interactive:
+ Interactive:
- Collective Dynamics of Small World Networks
- ,
+ Collective Dynamics of Small World Networks,
original paper by Watts & Strogatz (1998),
turned into interactive visuals by Bret Victor in 2011.
Slightly technical, but it's a lot easier to understand when
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- The Evolution of Trust
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- by Nicky Case (2017).
+ The Evolution of Trust by Nicky Case (2017).
This is a game about the game theory of how cooperation arises (or not).
You first play a game of trust,
then play a meta-game of that, then a meta-meta-game of that...
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- Parable of the Polygons
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- by Vi Hart and Nicky Case (2014).
+ Parable of the Polygons by Vi Hart and Nicky Case (2014).
A story about how harmless choices can create a harmful world.
Based off a Nobel Prize-winning game theorist's work,
this interactive shows how discrimination and diversity can arise from the bottom up.
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