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2020-10-28 »

The Curse of Unreasonably Sized Networks

I just did a presentation at SREcon Conversations (which I call SREconcon) EMEA, called the "Curse of Unreasonably Sized Networks." I talked about the series of Dunbar's numbers and how they relate to different kinds of human social networks, and surprisingly, also to the evolution of the Internet.

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