Sublime

I described three common ways in which people flip the hive switch: awe in nature, Durkheimian drugs, and raves. I described recent findings about oxytocin and mirror neurons that suggest that they are the stuff of which the hive switch is made. Oxytocin bonds people to their groups, not to all of humanity. Mirror neurons help people empathize with

Uncertainty is an acid,

organizational scholar Debra Meyerson on “tempered radicals.” Tempered radicals are insiders in organizations who do not present as rebels and are often successful in their jobs. They are catalysts for change by challenging the status quo in small, cautious ways.

the dissipation of fears, making it possible for antiracist power to succeed. To fight for mental and moral change as a prerequisite for policy change is to fight against growing fears and apathy, making it almost impossible for antiracist power to succeed.

“True enough, we have internal experts we can draw on,” says Cenkl, “but we’ve also realized that we need to change the way we present ourselves. It’s not necessarily that the MITRE person is the smartest person in the room. We’ve decided that the model needs to evolve so that we become the brokers of expertise. Our value is that we understand the

the networked “signal” of movements can be self-defeating without “capacity” to translate it into durable, adaptable organizations that can wield leverage long enough to achieve shared goals.

Our social circles have a strong influence on our own beliefs and behaviors. In the 1950s, conformity experiments by social psychologist Solomon Asch showed that some people will disregard objective facts if everyone else opposes them. More recently, social scientists Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler have found that people tend to mirror their

a subject of active development is how systems like Polis and Community Notes could be extended with modern graph theory and GFMs.