This week’s reading by the fancily named Albert-László Barabás really empathized on the 80/20 rule. Now as I was reading the intro got me questioning where this was going since it took a page to give the rule context. Surprisingly the explanation that came with the rule that later turned into Murphy’s Law of Management made sense. It is in fact true that 80% of peas are produced by only 20% of the pea-pods (I actually looked this up) and back to Murphy’s Law of Management 80% of all profits are produced by 20% of all employees and 80% of customer service problems are made by 20% of customers. That is all well and good but what does this have to do with our understanding of networks? I decided to read on.

There we got into what we where talking about in the tutor where we were presented with random and scale-free networks. This gives an indication that even behind the hubs of the most complex networks, there is a power law that the network adheres to. So strict mathematical expression rules everything that we see, I guess my math teacher in grade five was right after all.