Every layer of review makes you 10x slower

Viral Effects Are Not Network Effects

Virality and network effects are conflated by even experienced Founders, and it keeps them from developing the right strategies and playbooks.

https://n0.computer

Reducing net work for networks

Bridges & The Last Network Effect - augment

Modelling the viability of opportunity networks

How big should a peer-to-peer network be before it generates a steady stream of deals?

Estimating peer effects in noisy, low-rank networks via network smoothing

Peer effect estimation requires precise network measurement, yet most empirical networks are noisy, rendering standard estimators inconsistent. To address measurement error in networks, we propose a method to estimate peer effects in networks whose expected adjacency matrix is low-rank. Our key result shows that peer effects over a true unobserved network are asymptotically equivalent to peer effects over the expected adjacency matrix. This result reduces peer effect estimation in noisy networks to low-rank matrix estimation targeting the expected adjacency matrix. We develop our theory for weighted networks observed with additive noise, but simulations suggest approach can be applied more generally when there is a low-rank estimation method suited to a particular noise structure. We demonstrate via simulations that our approach applies to egocentric samples, aggregated relational data, and networks with missing edges, each requiring a different low-rank estimation method.

Call for Abstracts — NetSci Dresden 2027

Submit your work on any topic in network science as a one-page abstract. Deadline: 1 December 2026.

White Paper — the FIRST PERSON NETWORK

Part Seven: The four trust network effects in a two-sided market for trust.

Speeding up code review with `small-change`

Imprint’s average engineer is merging 4x more PRs than 2 years ago. Yay. Aggregated behind the average is something even more interesting: we have two teams that are merging 10x their PRs over that period. One engineer is merging 25x the PRs per week of our average engineer two years ago, and a number of others are closing in on that number. That’s pretty neat, and the slope of the line suggests our average in a year is going to look much closer to today’s p90 than today’s p50. Even more importantly, we aren’t just shipping more, our quality has improved: incidents are down 42% half-over-half, and critical incidents are down 78% half-over-half. I think we’ve always known the quality/velocity tradeoff wasn’t a particularly useful construct, but that’s undeniable today.

Introducing Slow Social

I’d like to introduce you to Slow Social. Slow Social is my idea of what I wish social networks...

Why Internet Infrastructure Decisions Rarely Stay Localized - Internet Society

Even narrow policy choices can have ripple effects that shape what people can access, how information moves, and who can participate online.

The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?

Researchers at Caltech quantify human behavioral information throughput at approximately 10 bits/s across various tasks, highlighting a vast discrepancy with the brain's sensory input capacity,...

Seize the Means of Computation - ProMarket

To regain internet autonomy from Big Tech companies, lower switching costs with legislation that allows new services to subvert network effects and encourage adversarial interoperability. Too often, our discussion of Big Tech’s dominance starts and ends with a simplistic account of network-effects-driven inevitability, as though the winner-take-all market we have today could not have been […]