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Beyond Metcalfe's Law to the power of community building
- bootload 16y agoI ran into Reeds Law ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%27s_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%27s_law reading "The most difficult CEO skill: managing your own psychology" ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2396120 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2396120 thinking about the threshold of effective control and utility of workers in a company. A harder to visually read version posted here ~ http://www.reed.com/dpr/locus/gfn/reedslaw.html http://www.reed.com/dpr/locus/gfn/reedslaw.html
- btilly 16y agoIt is worth pointing out that this article was written during the dot com hysteria, and there has never been any quantitative evidence for it. Similarly data supporting Metcalfe's Law is hard to come by. Of course I'm biased. I'm one of the co-authors of http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/metcalfes-law-is-wrong http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/metcalfes-law-is... which, instead of postulating that Metcalfe's Law is pessimistic, says that it is far too optimistic. (Of course we had multiple lines of reasoning for that conclusion, several of which were based on concrete economic data.)