Sublime

most government agencies, public schools, religious institutions, and the military are run based on Conformist-Amber principles and practices.

Money is an information system that records and updates who has done work that is valued by others, such that credit can be universalized and socially scaled.

In literate societies people are organised into networks, so that each person is only a small step in a huge algorithm, and it is the algorithm as a whole that makes the important decisions. This is the essence of bureaucracy.

Sociologists measure power and influence in terms of the structural positions of agents (nodes) in complex networks.

located two Facebook datasets, one small and one large (and, no, they didn’t get either of them from Cambridge Analytica . . . both are publicly available), and downloaded a large sample of Twitter traffic (if you know how to do this, it is easy to do and, because Twitter is publicly accessible, it is perfectly legal).

Usenet, which are old-school discussion forums; MUDs/MOOs, which are text-based virtual worlds; and of course IRC.

every aspect of a practice group’s affairs, from practice development to hiring, from economic structure to governance, will be affected by its relative positioning on this spectrum.