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“Psychology is a theory of human behavior. Philosophy is an ideal of human behavior. History is a record of human behavior.” – Will Durant

Morgan Housel • Makes You Think

It is difficult to determine whether these questions are more of a personal or more general (collective) nature. It seems to me that the latter is the case. A collective problem, if not recognized as such, always appears as a personal problem, and in individual cases may give the impression that something is out of order in the realm of the persona

Sandra Easter • Jung and the Ancestors: Beyond Biography, Mending the Ancestral Web

This metaphor — the American people as the patient — can’t be carried too far. The American people must accept responsibility if the system malfunctions. Not that we created the malfunctions. But to change the system, we must accept the responsibility of seeing our world correctly. This isn’t easy. What most people are sure that they “see” can be i

Charles Reich • The Greening of America

The historian and biographer extends this backwards in time. Now youth find models of honor not only among the living but among dead. To study the great men of a community’s past is to study what greatness means in that community. That I think is half the purpose of these biographies of Roosevelt and Rockefeller, Feynman and Oppenheimer, Licklider ... See more

The Scholar's Stage • The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite

People change their behavior when they know they’re being watched. And on social media, somebody can always look at you.

David Perell • The Social Media Trap - David Perell

Scholars who study social networks have attempted to classify the strata of friendship. “Best,” “close,” “good,” “casual” and “acquaintance” is one taxonomy they use. “Support clique,” “sympathy group,” “friendship group,” “clansmen” and “acquaintances” is another. These scholars have imagined friend networks as a pyramid, with close friends and fa... See more

Lisa Miller • The Vexing Problem of the ‘Medium Friend’

People who met him then described him as socially awkward, overly earnest, and cerebral.

John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

When organizations are very small, individuals matter most. But when organizations grow larger, the system - its structure and dynamics - comes to dominate the analysis.

Alex Komoroske • Coordination Headwind - How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds

The legendary sociologist C. Wright Mills proposed that the “sociological imagination”—an understanding of how our own experiences reflect broader social and historical forces—could help us link our seemingly private troubles to public issues. Burnout, a personal malady that indexes a broken labor system, is a prime candidate for such reimagining.