2: Chapters 1 And 2 Of Geoffrey West’s Book “Scale”

In this second episode of The Armen Show, I discuss some tangential points, as usual, and then discuss concepts from the first two chapters of Geoffrey West’s book Scale.

  • linear scaling as compared with superlinear and sublinear
  • heartbeats in a lifetime for animals
  • how cities are similar to organisms in their growth

With this being episode 2, we have now doubled the number of episodes of The Armen Show.

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  1. […] Scale, which I summarized chapters of in some of the earliest episodes of this show, specifically 2, 9, and 11. It was informative to me to get a sense of how a population or network develops from […]

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