Too Long; Didn't Read
Some ideas have long lives, like the idea that “weak ties” are more critical for successful networks than “strong ties.” <strong>Some 45 years after sociologist Mark Granovetter published the original </strong><a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jure/pub/papers/granovetter73ties.pdf" target="_blank"><strong>academic paper</strong></a><strong> that established this idea, we at nCent thought that it deserves revisiting. </strong>In a world where technology is creating tremendous advances in our ability to create and sustain social networks, it helps to remind ourselves of the original discoveries in network theory. These discoveries also help highlight the potential power of tapping into our “weak ties” with <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/blockchain" target="_blank">blockchain</a> <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/technology" target="_blank">technology</a>.