Author: Alex B

  • Time-Networks Continued

    Time-Networks Continued

    In my previous article, titled “Time-Networks“, I introduced a new framework for analyzing social networks: time-network analysis. This article extends…

  • Time-Networks

    Time-Networks

    How do you measure a year? Simply as “five-hundred-twenty-five-thousand-six-hundred minutes”? From the perspective of a clock, sure, a year is…

  • Social Terrain

    Social Terrain

    Each person experiences different social terrain. Some walk on rolling hills, with plenty of paths to take, while others are…

  • Polyafficity

    Polyafficity

    Polyafficity [pɒlɪ əˈfɪsəti] noun A way of experiencing the world that is characterized by a multiplicity of group-affiliations. // The…

  • Reciprocity in Everyday Life

    Reciprocity in Everyday Life

    Oftentimes when I make a large meal, I put some of it in a reusable container and give it to…

  • Reciprocity Rings

    Reciprocity Rings

    In Adam Grant’s book Give and Take: Why helping others drives our success, he describes a workshop called a “Reciprocity…

  • Social Network Analysis

    Social Network Analysis

    How well do you know the informal social network in your organization? Studies have found that those who have the…

  • Creativity and Connection

    Creativity and Connection

    What is creativity? And what makes a creative team? Is it the creativity of individual parts of the brain or…

  • Survival of the Fittest, and other Myths

    Survival of the Fittest, and other Myths

    What if I told you that many of the things you tell yourself, the assumptions you hold about who you…

  • How a Paradigm Shift Can Resolve Your Current Crisis

    How a Paradigm Shift Can Resolve Your Current Crisis

    You have probably heard the phrase “paradigm shift” used to describe every new technology imaginable, from AI to electric cars…