Short post and video on the importance of networks for success. "Even if you're not an artist, you underestimate simultaneous importance of ability and connections - and how those two factors interact with each other - at your peril. From art to science to insurance claims adjustment to professional bowling, every field involves networks: networks that, as Barabási's work has shown us, aren't always visible." And networks - importantly - are what elite colleges and universities provide their students. Which is why focusing on learning to the exclusion of all else, especially for at-need students, serves to entrench the advantage of the elite.
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