The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.

We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.

The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.