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the same six people you'd invite to a party, wearing different job titles.
means a set of nodes connected by relationships, where the connections often matter more than the nodes themselves.
from from net plus work — literally the labor of knotting threads together; the word jumped from fishing gear to railroads to computers to your group chat without ever losing the tangle metaphor.
six degreesaverage path length between any two humans is short.
metcalfe's lawa network's value scales roughly with users squared.
weak ties winacquaintances, not close friends, land you most jobs.
internet's coreoriginally built to survive a nuclear attack, not cat videos.