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Your Life is Driven by Network Effects

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We all think we make these choices ourselves. It certainly feels like we’re in full control. But it turns out that our choices — both in our startups and in our lives — are more constrained than we think. The unseen hand in them all is the networks that surround us and the powerful math they exert on us. Working with network effects in our 100+ companies makes it impossible not to notice how the same mechanisms and math that create near-destiny for companies also create near-destiny for us as individuals. It’s mind-blowing once you see it. These constraints are highly determinative of how your life will turn out, guiding us inexorably down one path or another in ways that are both quite predictable. Yet these forces are typically unnoticed. This article outlines how we see network effects impacting nearly every aspect of your life. With that lens, it lays out a perspective on how to make the 7 most important decisions of your life. It will hopefully help you make decisions that are mor

Your Life is Driven by Network Effects Get our weekly newsletter that 322K+ startup teams read Subscribe Your Life is Driven by Network Effects James Currier · @jamescurrier · Feb 2020 · Silicon Valley James Currier · @jamescurrier Feb 2020 · Silicon Valley Table of Contents Revealing the Unseen Forces That Guide Your Life Network Force: The Unseen Hand Seeing the Math at Work in Your Life Zipf’s Law and You Your Body and Cities Have Predictable Mathematical Patterns How do nodes on a human network work? In Networks, The Rich Nodes Get Richer The math behind why dinner parties behave the way t

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