Thread · 3 tweets · 4 Aug 2021

"And as the pioneering political economist Elinor Ostrom showed over a lifetime of research, there are countless examples of people coming together to create rules and institutions to manage common resources." Great stuff from @fmanjoo: nytimes.com/2021/08/04/opi…

What @fmanjoo is pointing at is very much the topic of the recent "Stewardship of global collective behavior," which I very much recommend you read if you haven't already: pnas.org/content/118/27…

And in the unlikely event that you want to read even more about the issues that the Internet is creating for global collective behaviour, notably to our collective cognitive abilities, it's on the blog! berjon.com/stewardship/