Recently, Clay Shirky wrote an essay on how to create and maintain
long-lived groups among people who communicate with each other
electronically. Interestingly, although Shirky does not say so
specifically, his main focus parallels that of David Brin, who wrote
an essay on disputation arenas.
Robert's summery of the group and disputation papers was wonderfully
cogent and well-done, worthy of a fine book review or an A+ term
paper.
As for comparisons with THE CORE... don't just say that you saw em...
write em down! Ideally specific, the more the better!
Thanks folks. Thrive.
Interesting. But of course nothing new. The reason these boys did
what they did is because of lack of accountability. SOme males hold
THEMSELVES accountable. But nobody does it perfectly. It's a favor
that others will willingly to FOR you. You repay them by (eagerly)
returning the
I've been so incredibly busy with work lately so I've been cutting back
on posting Scouted stories to the list. (In fact, from here on in,
they'll probably just wind up on my blog instead.) But I thought this
might be of as much interest to brinellers as it was to me. It's an
essay by Clay
