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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

One thing I would add is, at the start of camp, you have to build trust. There is no inherent trust, because you're all new to the network, so you're gonna have to have rigidity in your structure, because that contains the chaos, for lack of a better word. But as time goes on, you're building more and more trust in the network, and the network... See more

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)

Building a new model for community-centered local news

Simon Galperin medium.com

the creeping professionalization of civic life has shifted the “everyday democracy” responsibilities of community membership and participation to the domain of nonprofit management. As credentialed managers assume the roles once held by ordinary citizens and neighbors, formal programs take the place of informal groups and activities, and... See more

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.

Eric Jorgenson • The Anthology of Balaji: A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future

-Designing a membership system to generate social capital

Andrew Hong • Composable Membership and its Role in Generating Social Capital

Küng acted as the master architect, designing an eight‐sector model for institutional coordination; Swidler functioned as the philosophical operator, providing the legitimacy framework; Bailey served as the consciousness‐conditioning strategist, embedding government–religion–education alignment. Each fulfilled a distinct role in building an... See more