May be related to Barabasi's ideas of work (and many other phenomena) coming in discrete clumps in his 2010 book "Bursts"
https://barabasi.com/book/bursts On Mon, Sep 13, 2021, 12:16 PM Roger Critchlow <r...@elf.org> wrote: > Open access at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25477-8 > > Across a range of creative domains, individual careers are characterized > by hot streaks, which are bursts of high-impact works clustered together in > close succession. Yet it remains unclear if there are any regularities > underlying the beginning of hot streaks. Here, we analyze career histories > of artists, film directors, and scientists, and develop deep learning and > network science methods to build high-dimensional representations of their > creative outputs. We find that across all three domains, individuals tend > to explore diverse styles or topics before their hot streak, but become > notably more focused after the hot streak begins. Crucially, hot streaks > appear to be associated with neither exploration nor exploitation behavior > in isolation, but a particular sequence of exploration followed by > exploitation, where the transition from exploration to exploitation closely > traces the onset of a hot streak. Overall, these results may have > implications for identifying and nurturing talents across a wide range of > creative domains. > > via hacker news > > -- rec -- > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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