书籍介绍
这本书最颠覆性的地方,在于它把'成功'从个人努力的叙事里连根拔起,重新安放在集体的、网络的坐标系中。作者的核心论断冷峻而反直觉:你做了什么(能力表现)只是必要条件,能否成功取决于'我们'如何集体衡量你。当表现可被精确测量时,努力尚能驱动成功;可大多数领域里表现无法量化,此时驱动成功的便成了网络——声誉的自我繁殖、初始优势的滚雪球效应,以及'成功孕育成功'的复利逻辑。读者反复提及的,正是这种'明明拼尽全力却未被看见'的结构性无力感,被一套数据论证讲清楚了。它不灌鸡汤,而是揭示规则本身:在高手彼此差距微乎其微的区间,细节与偶然、合作与抢功,往往比实力更决定结局。适合那些困惑于'为何付出与回报失衡'、并愿意用科学而非信念理解成功的人。
作者简介
Albert-László Barabási is the Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science and a Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern University, where he directs the Center for Complex Network Research and holds appointments in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Central European University in Budapest. A native of Transylvania, Romania, he received his Masters in Theoretical Physics at the Eötvös University in Budapest, Hungary and Ph.D. at Boston University. Barabási latest book, Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do (Dutton, 2010), is available in five languages. His previous book Linked: The New Science of Networks (Perseus, 2002) is currently available in fifteen languages. He is the author of Network Science (Cambridge, 2016) and the co-editor of The Structure and Dynamics of Networks (Princeton, 2005). His work has led to many breakthroughs, including the discovery of scale-free networks in 1999, which continues to make him one of the most cited scientists today.