Scenius

January 26, 2020 — July 28, 2022

communicating

distributed

economics

faster pussycat

game theory

institutions

learning

mind

networks

Teamwork for autopoietic outlier teams.

For some examples and interesting refs on high functioning scenes, see Gwern’s The Effectiveness of Unreasonable Small Groups, which introduced me to the term scenius, credited by Kevin Kelly to Brian Eno.

Compare with the foundation techniques of squad wealth.

Figure 1: Fijians preparing hot stones, 1906, Wellington, by James McDonald.

1 Incoming

The Pandemic Is Resetting Casual Friendships

2 References

Dunbar. 1993. “Coevolution of Neocortex Size, Group Size and Language in Humans.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Kawakatsu, Chodrow, Eikmeier, et al. 2021. “Emergence of Hierarchy in Networked Endorsement Dynamics.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Klug, and Bagrow. 2016. “Understanding the Group Dynamics and Success of Teams.” Royal Society Open Science.

Pavlogiannis, Tkadlec, Chatterjee, et al. 2018. “Construction of Arbitrarily Strong Amplifiers of Natural Selection Using Evolutionary Graph Theory.” Communications Biology.

Pels, Kleinert, and Mennigen. 2018. “Group Flow: A Scoping Review of Definitions, Theoretical Approaches, Measures and Findings.” PLoS ONE.

Sornette, Maillart, and Ghezzi. 2014. “How Much Is the Whole Really More Than the Sum of Its Parts? 1 ⊞ 1 = 2.5: Superlinear Productivity in Collective Group Actions.” PLoS ONE.

Wu, Wang, and Evans. 2019. “Large Teams Develop and Small Teams Disrupt Science and Technology.” Nature.