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average network size was around 125, with a distinct ∩-shape against age: networks initially increase in size as we age, reach a peak between the mid-twenties and early thirties and then decline steadily into old age
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Social capital is the productive potential of social networks to create value. It emerges from trust and the willingness to cooperate.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • Inside the Internet's First 77-Artist "Headless Band"
When we do, we assume the politicians are clients in a patron–client relationship, and we assume their obligations will cloud their impartial judgment.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)

An interesting thing is happening when kids are plugged into a different network, not the state-approved network, during their nascent years. They’re plugged into their own communities and subcultures. The state today has a lot less control over kids as they’re growing up.