Mark Granovetter — On AI
This page lists every Orange Pill Wiki entry hyperlinked from Mark Granovetter — On AI. 18 entries total. Each is a deeper-dive on a person, concept, work, event, or technology that the book treats as a stepping stone for thinking through the AI revolution. Click any card to open the entry; in each entry, words colored in orange link to other Orange Pill Wiki entries, while orange-underlined words with the Wikipedia mark link to Wikipedia.
Adopter Categories
Rogers's five-part typology dividing any social system by timing of adoption: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards — each a structural position, not a personality type.
AI Practice Framework
The Berkeley researchers' prescription for the AI-augmented workplace — structured pauses, sequenced workflows, protected human-only time, behavioral training alongside technical training — the operational counterpart to Maslach's fix-the-…
Bridging Capital
The informational access arising from connections across different groups — democratized by AI to unprecedented scale, but structurally distinct from the bonding capital AI cannot provide.
Cross-Domain Translation
The contextual work of rendering insight from one community intelligible to another — the irreducibly human bridging function that AI does not perform.
Embeddedness
Granovetter's 1985 insistence that all economic action is embedded in concrete social relations — demolishing the fiction of disembedded markets and, now, disembedded AI.
Gatekeepers of Connection
The infrastructure-control power concentrated in AI companies that determine which connections are possible — a category of gatekeeping without precedent in the history of social networks.
Sociology of the Between
The structural claim that intelligence lives in the space between minds — not in individual nodes but in the connections through which ideas collide and recombine.
Strong Ties and Bonding Capital
The relationships that provide trust, commitment, and accountability — irreplaceable for sustained creative work, structurally distinct from the informational function of weak ties.
Structural Holes
Ronald Burt's concept for the gaps between disconnected groups — and the disproportionate value captured by those who bridge them.
The Orange Pill Moment
The threshold crossing after which the AI-augmented worker cannot return to the previous regime — The Orange Pill's central metaphor for the qualitative, irreversible shift in what a single person can build.
The Strength of Weak Ties
Granovetter's 1973 thesis that acquaintances deliver novel information more reliably than close friends — because weak ties bridge clusters that strong ties cannot span.
Threshold Model of Collective Behavior
Granovetter's 1978 model explaining why similar groups produce dramatically different outcomes — and why AI adoption cascades in some communities and stalls in others.
Training Data as Colonial Archive
The structural reframing that reads the large language model's training corpus through the lens of Spivak's analysis of the colonial archive — an apparently comprehensive record whose categories enact the exclusions they claim to overcome.
Claude Code
Anthropic's command-line coding agent — the specific product through which the coordination constraint shattered in the winter of 2025, reaching $2.5B run-rate revenue within months.
Large Language Models
Neural networks trained on internet-scale text that have, since 2020, demonstrated emergent linguistic and reasoning capabilities — in Whitehead's vocabulary, computational systems whose prehensions of the textual corpus vastly exceed any i…
Diffusion of Innovations (Book)
Rogers's 1962 landmark — revised through five editions over four decades — that synthesized hundreds of studies into the most cited framework in the social sciences for understanding how new ideas travel.
The Orange Pill
Edo Segal's 2026 book on the Claude Code moment and the AI transition — the empirical ground and narrative framework on which the Festinger volume builds its diagnostic reading.
