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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

“People feel their membership reflects well on them because it shows they look at the world in a slightly different way from others,”

Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people

My anecdotal evidence generally seems to support the idea that group sizes will usually plateau at a number lower than 150 participants. This comes from 20 years of doing facilitation both on and offline, running several software companies, and running various forums at America Online. In particular, many online communities provide good evidence fo... See more

Christopher Allen • The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes

The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes

Christopher Allen lifewithalacrity.com

“Dunbar’s number” is a theoretical cognitive limit on the number of stable social relationships humans can maintain at one time. According to Robin Dunbar, a British anthropologist, humans have the cognitive capacity to keep track of somewhere around 150 close personal connections. Beyond this limited circle, we start treating people less like indi

Josh Kaufman • The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume

Hypothesis 1: The "golden age" hypothesisThe "golden age" hypothesis says there are one or more "golden ages" from the past that were superior at producing innovation compared to today. Perhaps understanding and restoring what worked about those "golden ages" would lead to an explosion in creativity today.

Holden Karnofsky • Where's Today's Beethoven?

The Anarchist and the Hockey Stick

experimental-history.com

Note Hull’s comment that if a person or group dissociates the species-specific designation “Homo sapiens” from the designation “human being,” with all of its attendant moral and theological implications, then that person or group has a “less plausible position.” Why? Why should that which we see, hear, feel, taste, or touch (or observe through scie