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Instead, good communities like this are decentralized networks of many micro-communities, where there are a few superconnectors that form the fast, efficient “backbone” interconnect of the larger community.
Linus Lee • A cellular theory of communities | thesephist.com
“A community is a living organism. It’s either declining or improving; there’s no steady-state in a community.”
Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people
we cannot assume that everything interesting is at the same scale as ourselves.
John Brockman • This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Edge Question Series)
By promoting self-organization, energy flux gradually converts a clump of mindless molecules into information-processing machinery with agency—meaning the self-drive and purposeful action that we associate with life.
Bobby Azarian • The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
All curation grows until it requires search, and all search grows until it requires curation.
ben-evans.com • Lists Are the New Search — Benedict Evans
The Ascent of Information: Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm
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The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life
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