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When Donald Trump claimed that he used his own money to finance his primary campaign, he was really declaring, to the chagrin of his party leadership, that he was not to be part of Washington’s massive network of intertwining patron–client relationships.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Brent Campbell
@brentsoup
The take-home message from Schelling’s story—that incentives sometimes backfire—is familiar to psychologists.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
the people adopted just enough of the majority stance to be seen as acceptable members of the town.
Todd Rose • Collective Illusions: Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions
Matt M
@dsaint
Florida drew the transient and rootless on the eternal promise of a second chance, with more than its share of scammers and con men. So who was to say the guy living next door wasn’t one of them? A subdivision like Carriage Pointe was Jane Jacobs’s vision of hell.
George Packer • The Unwinding
David M Martin
@dmartin