“ It just doesn’t work,” Watts says, when I meet him at his gray cubicle at Yahoo Research in midtown Manhattan, which is unadorned except for a whiteboard crammed with equations.
Is the Tipping Point Toast? — Duncan Watts — Trendsetting | Fast Company
UGH. I hate when I start reading an interesting article and then see that it’s like six pages long (I’m kind of a slow reader due to mild ADD). WHY DID YOU NEED TO DESCRIBE THE SETTING IN SO MUCH DETAIL? It’s an article, not a fucking novel.
Update: I finished the article. Definitely a good read, mostly because it supports my worldview of anarchy and chaos overlaid with a fictional lattice of “experts” who are essentially astrologers getting paid to give analysis that sounds reasonable, but is mostly worthless.
“that’s the thing about magic,” says Watts. “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”
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