{"id":1849,"date":"2013-02-25T08:10:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T13:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2013-02-25T08:10:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T13:10:34","slug":"bursts-by-albert-laszlo-barabasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1849","title":{"rendered":"bursts by albert-l\u00e1szl\u00f3 barab\u00e1si"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Albert-L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Barab\u00e1si}}&#8217;s book &#8220;{{Bursts}}: The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We Do, from Your E-mail to Bloody Crusades&#8221; is fascinating. In the same overall genre as {{Malcolm Gladwell}}&#8217;s {{Outliers}} (<a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2011\/02\/16\/outliers-by-malcolm-gladwell\/#.URQbmaVlH00\">review<\/a>) &#8211; pop psychology and pop science &#8211; {{Bursts}} is a great read: bringing highly technical and dense topics to the masses in a manner that [apparently] doesn&#8217;t dumb it down, and never condescends to the reader.<\/p>\n<p>The author is a professional researcher with deep experience in the fields he writes about &#8211; a huge plus. If you can wade through all the Hungarian names in a couple of the stories (it&#8217;s not that hard), you&#8217;ll find this a fantastic, enlightening read.<\/p>\n<p>Reading this makes me want to go buy his other book, {{Linked}}.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Albert-L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Barab\u00e1si}}&#8217;s book &#8220;{{Bursts}}: The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We Do, from Your E-mail to Bloody Crusades&#8221; is fascinating. In the same overall genre as {{Malcolm Gladwell}}&#8217;s {{Outliers}} (review) &#8211; pop psychology and pop science &#8211; {{Bursts}} is a great read: bringing highly technical and dense topics to the masses in a manner that [apparently] &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1849\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">bursts by albert-l\u00e1szl\u00f3 barab\u00e1si<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,9,23,38],"tags":[211,350,397,581,588,589],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-cool","category-insights","category-review","tag-crusade","tag-gaussian","tag-hungary","tag-poisson","tag-powerlaw","tag-prediction"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}