2026-10-06
Taking the Action out of Collective Action
Cooperation weakens when orders, reporting, and representation separate activity from consequence. The challenge is not scale, but how we scale.
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Follow via RSSEssays about cooperation, coordination and governance, and what allows collective capacity to grow.
2026-06-12
The Architecture of Good Intentions
The FBI warned people to delete their DNA after a bankruptcy court did its job correctly. Nobody broke the law. The outcome was wrong anyway. That gap is what this essay is about.
2026-05-18
In Pursuit of Society
This essay challenges the idea of society and asks whether the problem isn't human selfishness, but a broken system that pits self-interest against the collective.
2026-01-12
When Information Becomes Free, Democracy Pays the Price
The public sphere is not breaking down because people have become irrational, polarised, or careless with the truth. It is breaking down because our systems can no longer support coordination at the speed and scale at which information now moves.
2025-12-08
The Cooperation Field
Most systems explain order through control. More process. More oversight. More enforcement. More governance. More optimisation. These responses are understandable when coordination begins to fail. But control is expensive. It only works reliably when the underlying capacity to cooperate already exists.