Housekeeping: May 26
Dumping out some follow-up thoughts. I sometimes think this whole operation might’ve better served as a micro-blog. But I can’t decide whether that’d be annoying or not? Reading I have a lot of heavy-lifts in terms of projects this season, but I’ve got three books I’ve started to meander through. I doubt that I’ll release comprehensive more »
Social Physics V: Data-Driven Society
Quick overview: Sandy Pentland subscribes to the kind of ecological view that a lot of my recent sources have espoused- an emphasis on the relations between objects, instead of on the objects themselves. He argues for a “computational theory of behavior”, using Big Data and a system of collection/observation that he calls “reality mining”: the point is to more »
Social Physics IV: Data-Driven Cities
Quick overview: Sandy Pentland subscribes to the kind of ecological view that a lot of my recent sources have espoused- an emphasis on the relations between objects, instead of on the objects themselves. He argues for a “computational theory of behavior”, using Big Data and a system of collection/observation that he calls “reality mining”: the point is to more »
Social Physics III: Organizations
Quick overview: Sandy Pentland subscribes to the kind of ecological view that a lot of my recent sources have espoused- an emphasis on the relations between objects, instead of on the objects themselves. He argues for a “computational theory of behavior”, using Big Data and a system of collection/observation that he calls “reality mining”: the point is more »
Social Physics II
This is part two (of presumably five?) of Pentland’s Social Physics. I’m roughly following the sections that the book lays out, in order. Part 0: Some immediate personal/social context, what I’m thinking about before reading. Part 1 was on the basic premise of the book This part is about the foundations of Social Physics (Social Learning, Idea more »
Social Physics I
Pulling heavily from the introduction to Social Physics. Frankly, skimming below for emphasized words and block quotes will get you the gist, but I like to shore up with quotes directly from the source. And sometimes, I like to bloviate. — I. If I were preparing to create a PBS documentary of this book, I’d probably more »