Sublime

Look, sometimes you have to make quick decisions. You can’t just have humans make them; you have to combine human and machine methods.”

temptation of all professionals to underestimate the progress of a practice area down the life cycle.

social complexity ultimately emerges from people behaving in terms of the body-state imagery of their shared social metaphors. (If you habitually imagine your community as a family, and you have experienced loving parents, then surely your leaders have your best interests at heart.) In social

The take-home message from Schelling’s story—that incentives sometimes backfire—is familiar to psychologists.

The data collected would enable the organizers to plot “weather-maps of public feeling.” As a matter of principle, Mass-Observers did not distinguish themselves from the people they studied. They intended merely to expose facts “in simple terms to all observers, so that their environment may be understood, and thus constantly transformed.”

You want problems solved by the right people who can do it most effectively.

“activity trap”: