Processes where rate of change proportional to the amount present* are a bitch. This mostly explains the long tail or power law distribution of popularity, atte

Processes where rate of change proportional to the amount present* are a bitch. This mostly explains the long tail or power law distribution of popularity, attention, resources, and success. Then there's the various [major city] Review of [each other's] Books. Bless them but publishing and literati circles have bifurcated further way from other circles, along with many others by the narrow interest Cambrian Explosion the internet brought. * Modellable as differential equations