Let’s Start an Epidemic!Doc Norton Global Director of Engineering Culture Groupon@DocOnDev doc@groupon.com

1979

1979

1979

KISS Sucks!!

“Anyone on earth, at my or anyone’s will, can now

learn in just a few minutes what I think or do”

- Frigyes Karinthy

Player Friend Hearst Ford Foreman Riveter

IP

SM MG

MK

BM

But it’s not that simple...

Obesity

Smoking

Alcohol Consumption

Depression

Happiness

Happiness

Happiness

Kindness

Compassion

Love

love

love

1989

1989

1989

love

love

Love

Love is a Contagion

Doc Norton Global Director of Engineering Culture Groupon@DocOnDev doc@groupon.com

Love is a Contagion

Let’s Start an Epidemic!

Let’s Start an Epidemic!

Doc Norton Global Director of Engineering Culture Groupon@DocOnDev doc@groupon.com

Love is a Contagion

#LoveContagion

References / Credits• Collective Dynamics of Smoking in Large

Social Networks http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa0706154

• Anger on The Internethttp://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/cyber.2012.0130

• Data Structures Using Chttp://www.amazon.com/Data-Structures-Using-Aaron-Tenenbaum/dp/0131997467

• History of Computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware_(1960s%E2%80%93present)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_computing_1950%E2%80%931979http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_computing_1980%E2%80%931989

• Windows 2.0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2.0

• Stanley Milgramhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Milgram

• Marconihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi

• Emotional Contagionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_contagion

• Fowler’s Workshttp://jhfowler.ucsd.edu/

• Spread of Happinesshttp://fowler.ucsd.edu/dynamic_spread_of_happiness.pdf

References / Credits• “Chain Links” (pdf)

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://djjr-courses.wdfiles.com/local--files/soc180:karinthy-chain-links/Karinthy-Chain-Links_1929.pdf

• Six Degrees of Separationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation

• Small World Experimenthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_experiment

• The Hidden Influence of Social Networkshttp://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_christakis_the_hidden_influence_of_social_networks.html http://blog.ted.com/2010/05/10/the_hidden_infl/

• Three Degrees of Influence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_degrees_of_influence

• “Connected” (book) http://www.amazon.com/Connected-Surprising-Networks-Friends-Everything/dp/0316036137

• Marconi Nobel Lecture (pdf)http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1909/marconi-lecture.pdf

• KISS (band/discography)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_(band) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_discography

• Spread of Obesity in Large Social Networkshttp://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa066082http://fowler.ucsd.edu/spread_of_obesity.pdf

Images• Boy Holding Earth (image)

http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/child-holding-world-earth-globe-in-his-hands-oleksiy-maksymenko.jpg

• Eiffel Tower (image)http://img1.etsystatic.com/008/0/5636636/il_fullxfull.399837539_gmq5.jpg

• Six Degrees of Separation (image)http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Six_degrees_of_separation_01.png

• Kevin Bacon (image) http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mejsu0Iqwg1rhfklho1_400.jpg

• Love/Hate Baby (image)http://lolzpad.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Funny-Baby-Love-Hate.jpg

• KISS (image) http://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/xfOWdQ7uTZ13zmLMLteF_kiss.jpg

• Ramones (Image)http://cdn1.cdnme.se/cdn/8-2/652941/images/2012/ramones_200193498.png

• Tandy Model II (image)http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Okona-GfhR-TRS-80.jpg/711px-Okona-GfhR-TRS-80.jpg

• Highway Overpass (image)http://www.gribblenation.com/breezewood/underroad.jpg

• Spread of Obesity in Large Social Networks (movie)http://fowler.ucsd.edu/fsn5.mov

• Depression in Social Network (image)http://fowler.ucsd.edu/images/depression_2000.jpg

• Fowler Imageshttp://fowler.ucsd.edu/images/

• Laughing School Girls (image)http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000CrKxGG1KWEc/s/880/880/ZimbabweTravelAmieV-7712.jpg

• Matrix Machineshttp://media.ntvmsnbc.com/i/NTVMSNBC/Components/ArtAndPhoto-Fronts/Sections-StoryLevel/NTV%20Bilim/121221matrixx.jpg

• The “Matrix”http://images4.alphacoders.com/270/27094.jpg

• Stopping Bulletshttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z1BP5Yq0HqY/T3y3Zm6ydfI/AAAAAAAACa0/0gQ2lEYvGjg/s1600/tomarse+la+vida+con+calma.jpg

• “Choice”http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/9A0axXHXGj8/maxresdefault.jpg