With every Christmas card I write, I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, but I’m also pondering “The Strength of Weak Ties,” a seminal 1973 paper by the sociologist Mark Granovetter, then of Johns Hopkins University, now of Stanford. Granovetter wrote
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