If you’ve ever been to a rubber-chicken networking event, you’ve probably seen people who try to connect too quickly. They know they only have a short amount of time to connect with you, so they try to get too close “too quickly.” They act like your best friend, in the hopes that they’ll create enough [...]

What about people who drift in and out of our lives? Well, we can represent that through elliptical (rather than circular orbits).  At certain times we’re far apart from each other, and at other times, we’re close. However, in these relationships, we’re still impacted by each other’s pull. We orbit a common gravitational center. We [...]

For the past eight years, I’ve had my browser’s homepage set to Astronomy Picture of the Day. Each day, there’s an amazing picture with a write-up by an astronomer. Here’s an amazing Hubble Telescope photogragh that can help us think about mergers of social networks (and companies). Overall, I find this picture an amazing celestial [...]

Last week, I explored the concept of momentum within relationships. It’s not just whether you have a strong or weak tie, it’s also the momentum (strengthening or weakening). We discussed radial vectors and Doppler shift. Social network analysis often captures a “moment in time” and assumes that relationships are static, but we all know from [...]