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I’m currently reading Albert-László Barabási’s second book, Bursts. Though the book is primarily about predicting human behavior in the future, the book is peppered with interesting anecdotes about historical figures (i.e. from the past). One such figure mentioned prominently is Siméon-Denis Poisson, the 19th-century French mathematician. A element which may seem trivial out of context but is rather crucial in the book is Barabási’s description of Poisson’s organizational habits (a sort of 19th-century French GTD):
