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Humans began feeling solidarity with these large communities (thousands of other people living in small groups nested within larger groups) held together by the glue of common cultural knowledge. This form of social organization is not a hive or a troop but a tribe.

The “time-study man” was the forerunner to “high-level thinkers,” consultants, and idea men,

social theory always, necessarily, involves a bit of simplification. For instance, almost any human action might be said to have a political aspect, an economic aspect, a psycho-sexual aspect and so forth. Social theory is largely a game of make-believe in which we pretend, just for the sake of argument, that there’s just one thing going on:

“knowledge worker”—meaning laborers who do not use their hands, but their minds in combination with scalable technologies. Peter Drucker wouldn’t

we can see it really matters who you work with. This isn’t just peer pressure: who you associate with affects what information you get about the world. The people you know don’t just influence you with their opinions, but also help you sample the world differently.

recent advances in human history would have been possible without organizations as vehicles for human collaboration.

The people around us influence how we perceive the global society. In other words, we use our own social milieu to make inferences about how people we don’t know live their lives. But this may backfire when we live in homogeneous social environments and rarely meet people living in different circumstances. English psychologist Rael Dawtry and his

The nature of human beings is that you come into a company, you work like a dog, you work really hard, and then you get tired and hire someone to do your job. And it always takes two new hires to do your job. Just repeat that ad nauseam, and you end up with five thousand people sitting around at a web app company. And everyone from the outside is