http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/duke-wie/blog/2007/03/02/the-i
Mark Berthelemy writes about Networks. He raises several useful points (as well as pointing to other work, including a post by Ewan McIntosh)
One point particularly resonates:
Most of us start by trying to maintain a network that is far beyond our capabilities to maintain. We end up with too much to read, and too much to write. There is always pruning to be done to find the nodes that add the most value to you.
How true!
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