Friday, April 30, 2010

"Hurry Up and Wait"

4/30/10. Clive Thompson reviews Albert-Laszlo Barabasi's "Bursts."

"It turns out that this pattern—explosions of activity, followed by quiet—are not just a personal quirk of mine. Odds are, you deal with your email in much the same way. According to Albert-László Barabási's "Bursts," this "bursty" pattern governs almost everything we do and even much of what happens in the natural world."


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704302304575214081160026018.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion

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