NETWORKSCORE
Network Structure & Formation
Degree, clustering, bridges and formation logic predict what flows — and what breaks.
How it works
- Degree counts links; clustering counts triangles; bridges span worlds.
- Formation rules (meet friends, chase hubs) sculpt the shape.
- Shape governs flow: bridges spread novelty, hubs spread everything.
Use → Org design, virality, resilience. Prefer bridges over hubs for novelty.
Watch out → Drawing the org chart and calling it the network.
Try it → Map who you actually asked for help last month — that is your real network.
REDCAPE jobs → Reason · Design
Free sources → SFI Intro to Complexity (networks unit) • projectmesa/mesa (networks, MIT)
Attach to a lattice — combines with
Different families, shared jobs. Disagreement between them is where insight lives.
GAMES
Prisoner's Dilemma + Cooperation
Solo incentives wreck the group; repetition, reputation, punishment and sorting rebuild it.
SHARED JOBS: REASON · DESIGN
DIFFUSIONBass Diffusion (S-Curve)
Innovators plus imitators make the S-curve. Spend early on seeds, later on social proof.
SHARED JOB: DESIGN
LINEAR & NONLINEARCategorical & Threshold Models
Buckets and cutoffs turn messy attributes into testable if-then rules.
SHARED JOB: REASON