Is Exponential Growth A Possibility?

Look around you for a clue to the secret of growth, and you’ll find one S-shaped curve after another. Be it growth of population of people (as is proposed by Thomas R. Malthus) or bacteria, nature is full of Sigmoid curves. Web 2.0 sites or communities also grow in an S-shaped curve. If this is…

When Sharing Makes Perfect Sense

What makes you share something with others? It’s a simple question. Yet, as is the case with most simple questions, it’s not that easy to come up with simple answers. Doing exactly that, however, is the beauty of “sprezzatura“—a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear…

Flip Bell Curve; Meet Warshaw Curve!

Introducing the Bell Curve When mass production rules, everything else has to be done in a mass–mass marketing, and mass media come to mind. In the mass production era, the best and probably the easiest way to success is to find the one right product and price to target the average customers or consumers. That’s why most…