Sara

About two-thirds of the way through it, the people in front of my group started to mosh. These were big, sweaty men and they were throwing their bodies around with purposeful carelessness. More than once I jerked back, terrified a head-bang would break my nose. It only took a couple minutes for me to know they were ruining my experience. But my

Etiquette embeds in your psyche until it resembles logic. To a guesser, it may seem necessarily and universally true that, say, asking to borrow a friend’s new car is putting them in an awkward position. But these ideas are defined by culture, by cohort. Per The Atlantic piece, “Brits and Americans get discombobulated doing business in Japan,

“Any chance you can feed the cat while I’m out? No worries if not!” By pretending the stakes are lower than they are, we inoculate ourselves against the embarrassment of having needs, or appearing to care if we’re rejected. It’s a pressure valve, but a palliative one; after all, the stakes haven’t actually changed. I think this is a pretty good

Groupcore is an underlying mode like open source or co-ops that any person can participate in. Groupcore happens when individuals seek a form of cooperation that gives them autonomy, distributes authorship, and generates new outcomes none could make on their own.