Hi Harold,

Glad I came along your blog again. Great writing as always.
After reading, I got stuck with your statement that on the periphery, things are less homogeneous. Do you refer here to the variety of all individuals in the complete periphery? Because when people work together in the periphery on complex tasks, it helps to bring together 'specialists'. And specialists are not generalists, often lacking diverse connections, which leaves them at the periphery.

When people come together who are heterogeneous, they differ in their characteristics, they tend to become more central in the network, leaving the periphery.

So where I agree on your statement that complex work is done at the periphery, I tend to disagree on the homogeneous argument. Homogeneous connections between people makes them less central to the core.

Of course it depends on the definition of core and periphery. I look at these from a social network perspective.

Kind regards,
Bas