La lectura pormenorizada de este último libro de Barabasi y de sus colegas, una vez tamizada por sus fuentes, lecturas oblicuas, cierto autoensalzamiento de Barabasi con su propio éxito, una síntesis muy ambiciosa de -mas que de leyes indicaciones acerca de cómo triunfar-, merece profundas relecturas sobretodo siguiendo los pasos de sus colaboradores y continuadores, que son parte sustancial de su propio recorrido
CAPITULO 5: Superstars and Power Laws
Tiger Woods: Prodigy (Documentary Channel)
Erik Matuszewski 41 Fantastic Facts and Figures for Tiger Woods. 41st Birthday. Forbes, December 30, 2016
You can see the bell curves the various performance criteria follow in golf in Charles Murray Human Accomplishment. The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950. HarperCollins 2003.
Sherwin Rosen The Economics of Superstars. American Economic Review 71, no. 5 (1981): 845–58”
Moshe Adler Stardom and Talent. American Economic Review 75, no. 1 (1985): 208–12”
The difference between power laws and bell curves in great detail in Linked.
Larry Elliot World’s Eight Richest People Have Same Wealth as Poorest 50%. The Guardian, January 15, 2017
Jena McGregor Major Company CEOs Made 271 Times the Typical U.S. Worker in 2016. Chicago Tribune July 21, 2017
“The estimate on the cost of a citation came from Esteban Moro. According to his unpublished findings, the value of a citation in the United States is slightly above $100,000 — so a scientist like Weinberg who, according to Google Scholar, has a paper with 14,000 citations has an impact on science equivalent to roughly $1.4 billion.”
Eduardo Porter. “How Superstars’ Pay Stifles Everyone Else». New York Times December 25, 2010,
Eduardo Porter The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do”
Woods’s effect on the competition was stronger than any other factor
Jennifer Brown “Quitters Never Win: The (Adverse) Incentive Effects of Competing with ”“Superstars,” Journal of Political Economy 119, no. 5 (2011): 982–1013.”
Jason Mascia, the car salesman listen to episode 129 of This American Life,
A. Agrawal, J. McHale, and A. Oettl, Why Stars Matter. National Bureau of Economic Research. March 2014
Pierre Azoulay, Joshua S. Graff-Zivin & Jialan Wang, “Superstar Extinction». Quarterly Journal of Economics 125, no. 2 (2010).”
CAPITULO 6: Exploding Kittens and Sock Puppets
Elan Lee’s speech on the JoCo cruise, given twelve days into the viral campaign: .
Jackie Bischof “A Card Game About Exploding Kittens Broke a Kickstarter Record. , Newsweek February 2, 2015
70 percent of Kickstarter projects fail . En realidad 64%
Kickstarter experiment “Van de Rijt’s, S. Kang, M. Restivo, and A. Patil, “Field Experiments of Success-Breeds-Success Dynamics,” PNAS 111, no. 19 (2014): 6934–39.
M. Restivo and A. van de Rijt, “Experimental Study of Informal Rewards in Peer Production,” PLOS ONE 7, no. 3 (2012): e34358.”
Robert K. Merton “The Matthew Effect in Science,” Science 159, no. 3810 (1968): 56–63”
How success breeds success in childhood literacy. Keith Stanovich’s “Matthew Effects in Reading: Some Consequences of Individual Differences in the Acquisition of Literacy,” Reading Research Quarterly 21, no. 4 (1986): 360–407.
Arnout experiments
“when given an initial favorable endorsement, a full nine out of ten reviews received further positive feedback.”
Alison Flood R. J. Ellory’s Secret Amazon Reviews Anger Rivals, in The Guardian September 3, 2012, details about the Ellory story.
Provides a good discussion of the ethics and implications of sockpuppeting and an overview of how the practice benefits authors. “Sock Puppetry and Fake Reviews: Published and Be Damned,” The Guardian September 4, 2012
Allison Flood, “R. J. Ellory Wins Crime Novel of the Year Award,” provides details about his career and his success as a crime novelist.” The Guardian July 23, 2010,
On how up-and down-votes affect future ratings, see L. Muchnik, S. Aral, and S. J. Taylor, “Social Influence Bias: A Randomized Experiment,” Science 341, no. 6146 (2013): 647–51.”
Matthew Inman’s runaway success as a comics creator, .
Krisztina Holly “Elan Lee’s Secrets Behind the Largest Kickstarter Campaign in History,” Forbes July 28, 2016
CAPITULO 7: THE EAR OF THE BEHOLDER
Sam Marsden’s “The Cuckoo’s Calling: Publishers’ Embarrassment at Turning Down a J. K. Rowling Detective Novel.” TheTelegraph, July 14, 2013
King’s fascinating multibook experiment with writing under a pseudonym
Jake Rossen “Known Alias: How Stephen King Was Outed as Richard Bachman.” , Mental Floss. July 10, 2017
MusicLab study, M. J. Salganik, P. Sheridan Dodds, and D. J. Watts, “Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market,” Science 311, no. 5762 (2006): 854–56.
Jesse Marczyk “The Popularity of Popularity,” in Psychology Today.” September 3, 2013
Second MusicLab study Matthew Salganik and Duncan Watts, “Leading the Herd Astray: An Experimental Study of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in an Artificial Cultural Marketplace,” Social Psychology Quarterly 71, no. 4 (2008): 338–55.”
Ting & Dashun Wang Why Amazon’s Rankings Might Mislead You: The Story of Herding Effects,” Big Data Journal 2, no. 4 (2014): 196–204”
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield opened an ice-cream shop Time 2018 Entrepreneur October 10, 2008 .
Peace, Love, and Branding, a 2014 short film by Fast Company t (https://www.youtube.com/watchv=JNuDGsSdE0U).”
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