Love is a Contagion. Let's Start an Epidemic. This is the slide deck to go along with the Keynote I gave at That Conference in August 2013. This talk is all about the stories. The visuals support the stories told, but do not tell them on their own. I will add details to my blog and may upload another version of the slide deck with notes.

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

2. 1979

3. 1979

4. 1979
KISS Sucks!!

8. “Anyone on earth, at my or
anyone’s will, can now
learn in just a few minutes
what I think or do”
- Frigyes Karinthy

9. Player Friend Hearst Ford Foreman Riveter

13. IP
SM MG
MK
BM

16. But it’s not that simple...

17. Obesity

18. Smoking

19. Alcohol Consumption

21. Depression

22. Happiness

23. Happiness

24. Happiness

25. Kindness

26. Compassion

27. Love

28. love

29. love

30. 1989

31. 1989

32. 1989

40. love

41. love

42. Love

43. Love is a
Contagion

44. Let’s Start an Epidemic!
Doc Norton
Director of Engineering for Groupon
@DocOnDev
doc@groupon.com
Love is a
Contagion

45. Let’s Start an Epidemic!
Doc Norton
Director of Engineering for Groupon
@DocOnDev
doc@groupon.com
Love is a
Contagion

46. References / Credits
• Collective Dynamics of Smoking in Large
Social Networks
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/
NEJMsa0706154
• Anger on The Internet
http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/
cyber.2012.0130
• Data Structures Using C
http://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%9319
79
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Timeline_of_computing_1980%E2%80%9319
89
• Windows 2.0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2.0
• Stanley Milgram
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Milgram
• Marconi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Guglielmo_Marconi
• Emotional Contagion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Emotional_contagion
• Fowler’s Works
http://jhfowler.ucsd.edu/
• Spread of Happiness
http://fowler.ucsd.edu/
dynamic_spread_of_happiness.pdf

47. 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 Separation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Six_degrees_of_separation
• Small World Experiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-
world_experiment
• The Hidden Influence of Social Networks
http://www.ted.com/talks/
nicholas_christakis_the_hidden_influence_o
f_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 Networks
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/
NEJMsa066082
http://fowler.ucsd.edu/spread_of_obesity.pdf

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