Paul Staples on Substack
Culture just bends toward whoever shows up. This should empower and motivate us as much as terrify us.
Matt Klein • Lessons From My Grandma Inventing DoorDash
If a group is embarking on an unfortunate course of action, a single dissenter might be able to turn it around, by energizing ambivalent group members who would otherwise follow the crowd.
Cass R. Sunstein • Conformity
“We live in a world where we see ourselves as independent individuals. If you’re an independent individual, you don’t really think in terms of power. You think only in terms of your own influence on the world.
What you don’t see is what people in the past were more able to see: when you are in groups, you can be very powerful. You can change