Geeks, MOPs, and Sociopaths in Subculture Evolution

A “gossip trap”   is when your whole world doesn’t exceed Dunbar’s number and to organize your society you are forced to discuss mostly people. It is  Mean Girls  (and mean boys), but forever. And yes, gossip can act as a leveling mechanism and social power has a bunch of positives—it’s the stuff of life, really. But it’s a terrible

To understand how historical ingredients apply to today’s communities and micro-scenia, I sought out potential emergent scenia from the present day.  

I found them in theInterIntellectandWrite of Passage. Both Anna Gát’s InterIntellect and David Perell’s Write of Passage are transitioning from communities to micro-scenia, and each has the

Every network, if it starts with a focused atomic network, has a concept like “netiquette.” There’s a shared context in the early years of what you should and shouldn’t do within a network—a culture. But eventually that becomes susceptible to a collapse in context, which is a subtle and unique problem to networked products.