Sublime

This is an animal population under the Allee threshold—it tends to go toward zero. The technology product metaphor here is obvious—if a messaging app doesn’t have enough people in it, some users will delete it. And as the user base shrinks, it becomes more likely that each user will leave, ultimately causing inactivity and collapse of the network.

Third, we are fearful creatures and go to great lengths to preserve a sense of certainty, even when we know it to be false.

publicly visible.

Markets are driven by the actions of countless individuals, each reacting to his or her whims, the weather, and the news of the day. Remarkably, just as with army ants, out of all our individual actions emerges a higher order, a set of prices that allows us to buy and sell whatever we may desire.

is likely that some connections are preserved, such as

the productivity of an average article (and of each contributor) increases superlinearly, at least in terms of audience reach.