Are you addicted to Power Porn???

I don't watch much tv at all. The only time I watch the news or tv is when I pass by it and it's probably only for 5 seconds, and then I realize how I'm disgusted by its pointlessness.

I might use Google News every once in a while to read some articles about what's happening in the world, mainly because my professors demand it. And a couple of happenings through my RSS feeds, but that's about it.

This article is great. I think a bunch of us 'mentally masturbate' to self-improvement, power porn, or motivational imagery, instead of fundamentally just taking action.

Here are two articles, one is about Power Porn, and the other one is about 'just doing it.'

Are you addicted to Power Porn?
and
How to just do it

Information Theory

I don’t know if this deals with ‘Information Theory.’ In fact, I don’t really know what information theory is. But what I do know is that I’ve been pondering about the idea that there is a limited number of social acquintances that it takes to meet a target person.

Here’s a pic as an example.

‘ME’ meets ‘P1′, who introduces ‘ME’ to ‘P2.’ ‘P2′ is hanging out with the ‘Target’ who I’m introduced to by ‘P2.’ And so, my social network has built to include all 3 people, and only two people to the ‘Target.’

I’m really interested in learning more about the science or theory that gets into the nitty gritty of this type of stuff. I’d like some more statistics on what the average amount of people that it takes to be connected to someone famous. What is the optimal amount of people in a social network? This implies that you must keep in contact with them to keep them in your network. If you don’t stay in touch with someone, you lose them as a friend. And ideally, we’re talking about friends and not acquantances.

Update: I've learned since the original posting of this that how close someone is to you is called propinquity, and that you increase your propinquity to others by being close with many people.