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Bursts

The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do

By Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

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| Others | 9780525951605

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A revolutionary new theory showing how we can predict human behavior-from a
radical genius and bestselling author Albert-Laszlo Barabasi changed the way you
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Waste of time

Imagine you want to write a book on the history of popcorn but your publisher expects a book on life on Mars; what do you do? you stitch together both topics as best as you can.
This is what happens here; the author obviously wants to write about a crusade in Transylvania in 1500, but readers expe ... (continue)

Imagine you want to write a book on the history of popcorn but your publisher expects a book on life on Mars; what do you do? you stitch together both topics as best as you can.
This is what happens here; the author obviously wants to write about a crusade in Transylvania in 1500, but readers expect a book on networks. The result is a bad book; it does not convince when speaking about networks and will bore you to death with the Transylvanian adventures of the author's grand-grand-grand-daddy.
The content can be summed up into two sentences: 1. all human activity is bursty (so what, you do not usually answer e-mail at a steady pace over 24hrs) and 2. human behaviour can be predicted becuse it's highly repeated over time (so what again, it's obvious that I usually sleep in my bed at night).
Wasted time.

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