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<p><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabcaro">Fabcaro</a> m’avait permis de prendre conscience de mon attrait pour l’absurde avec ce chef-d’œuvre qu’est <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Za%C3%AF_za%C3%AF_za%C3%AF_za%C3%AF">Zaï zaï zaï zaï</a>. Ici je suis resté un peu sur ma faim, ou peut-être ma fin. L’épilogue rompant avec le narratif.</p> <p><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabcaro">Fabcaro</a> m’avait permis de prendre conscience de mon attrait pour l’absurde avec ce chef-d’œuvre qu’est <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Za%C3%AF_za%C3%AF_za%C3%AF_za%C3%AF">Zaï zaï zaï zaï</a>. Ici je suis resté un peu sur ma faim, ou peut-être ma fin. L’épilogue rompant avec le narratif.</p>
<p>Pincez-moi, je suis en train de décrier un angle politique. Absurdité quand tu nous tiens…</p> <p>Pincez-moi, je suis en train de décrier un angle politique. Absurdité quand tu nous tiens…</p>
<h2 id="pouvoir-de-detruire-pouvoir-de-creer">Pouvoir de détruire, pouvoir de créer <a href="#pouvoir-de-detruire-pouvoir-de-creer" title="Ancre vers cette partie">#</a></h2><blockquote>
<p>Les textes réunis ici, majeurs dans l’œuvre de Bookchin, exposent son écologie sociale, dans sa théorie comme dans sa pratique « municipaliste libertaire », qui passe par la démocratie directe et la reprise en main de nos conditions d’existence. Ils déploient aussi toutes les implications éthiques et même esthétiques de ce projet politique, depuis la respiritualisation du travail jusqu’à l’établissement d’une nouvelle sensibilité et d’une nouvelle façon de vivre, un apprentissage continuel de la vertu et de la décence pour résister à la corruption sociale, morale et psychologique exercée par le marché et son égoïsme débridé.</p>
<p><cite><em>Pouvoir de détruire, pouvoir de créer</em>, Murray Bookchin</cite></p>
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<p>Les <a href="/david/stream/2018/10/15/">réflexions</a> de cette personne <a href="/david/stream/2018/10/01/">m’intéressaient</a> alors je me suis dit qu’une compilation serait une bonne introduction. Il y a effectivement des textes qui après 50 ans n’ont pas pris un ride.</p>
<p>C’est peut-être ce qui est le plus déstabilisant d’ailleurs.</p>


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## Apocalypse

> Il serait déplorable de penser qu’une nouvelle simplification remplace celles que j’ai dénoncées ci-dessus — à savoir que nous devons apprendre à accepter la « rareté » et même une rigoureuse « austérité » ainsi qu’un surcroît de travail pénible si nous voulons vivre en harmonie avec la nature. Déjà on entend dire que nous sommes condamnés à un « effondrement écologique » d’ici dix ans, comparable à l’« effondrement économique » prédit par les marxistes pour le début de ce siècle — une sort d’effondrement mécanique, et non la dégradation régulière, l’érosion de l’environnement, qui sont de loin la plus forte et la plus sinistre des probabilités. De même que les environnementalistes du type Zero Population Growth avaient créé naguère un climat de panique à propos de la croissance démographique, de même une nouvelle cuvée d’écologistes « radicaux » risque à présent de susciter l’angoisse à propos de l’abondance et du développement technologique, évacuant ainsi le cœur du problème, c’est-à-dire les rapports sociaux mercantiles, le système bourgeois de production pour la production ainsi que la distorsion des besoins humains qu’engendre la consommation pour la consommation.
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> […]
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> Paniquer face à cette crise, décrire en termes apocalyptiques l’inévitable « effondrement » de l’environnement d’ici quelques dix ans, cela revient à encourager la passivité, un fatalisme mortel, qui favorisent le maintien du pouvoir en place. De plus, toutes les prédictions apocalyptiques sont fausses.
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> <cite>Entretien dans le magazine *Win* en décembre 1973, extrait de *[Pouvoir de détruire, pouvoir de créer](/david/2020/12/21/#pouvoir-de-detruire-pouvoir-de-creer)*, Murray Bookchin</cite>



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## Écotopie

> Il nous faut voir en face cette rude évidence qu’il est nécessaire de détruire ce système et de le remplacer par une société qui rétablisse l’équilibre entre le monde humain et le monde naturel — une société écologique qui devra commencer par ôter le bandeau des yeux de la Justice et substituer à l’inégalité entre égaux l’égalité entre inégaux. Cette société écologique, je l’ai appelée ailleurs anarcho-communisme ; dans mon prochain ouvrage, je la désigne comme « écotopie ». Chacun l’appellera comme il voudra. Ce qui compte, et c’est le sens des observations que j’ai présentées jusqu’ici, c’est de bien voir que la tentative de dominer la nature découle de la domination de l’homme par l’homme ; qu’une harmonie ne s’établira pas dans notre relation avec le monde naturel que si l’harmonie règne dans la société.
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> <cite>Entretien dans la revue *Philosophica, vol XIII* en 1974, extrait de *[Pouvoir de détruire, pouvoir de créer](/david/2020/12/21/#pouvoir-de-detruire-pouvoir-de-creer)*, Murray Bookchin</cite>


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## Pouvoir de détruire, pouvoir de créer

> Les textes réunis ici, majeurs dans l’œuvre de Bookchin, exposent son écologie sociale, dans sa théorie comme dans sa pratique « municipaliste libertaire », qui passe par la démocratie directe et la reprise en main de nos conditions d’existence. Ils déploient aussi toutes les implications éthiques et même esthétiques de ce projet politique, depuis la respiritualisation du travail jusqu’à l’établissement d’une nouvelle sensibilité et d’une nouvelle façon de vivre, un apprentissage continuel de la vertu et de la décence pour résister à la corruption sociale, morale et psychologique exercée par le marché et son égoïsme débridé.
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> <cite>*Pouvoir de détruire, pouvoir de créer*, Murray Bookchin</cite>

Les [réflexions](/david/stream/2018/10/15/) de cette personne [m’intéressaient](/david/stream/2018/10/01/) alors je me suis dit qu’une compilation serait une bonne introduction. Il y a effectivement des textes qui après 50 ans n’ont pas pris un ride.

C’est peut-être ce qui est le plus déstabilisant d’ailleurs.

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## Power imbalance

> The first step to tackle this is for the person on the upward side of the power dynamic to acknowledge and admit to themselves their position. Only then can you honestly reflect on interactions you have with your pairing partner, and how power dynamics impact them. Try to think about your own positionality and situatedness. What can you actively do to neutralize power imbalance?
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> Recognizing these types of differences and adapting our behaviour to improve collaboration can be hard. It requires a lot of self reflection.
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> <cite>*[On Pair Programming](https://martinfowler.com/articles/on-pair-programming.html)* ([cache](/david/cache/2020/bfce8545a2d7c8d51d3af19f61208134/))</cite>



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## Structureless

> Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a structureless group. Any group of people of whatever nature that comes together for any length of time for any purpose will inevitably structure itself in some fashion. The structure may be flexible; it may vary over time; it may evenly or unevenly distribute tasks, power and resources over the members of the group. But it will be formed regardless of the abilities, personalities, or intentions of the people involved.
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> <cite>*[The Tyranny of Stuctureless](https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm)* ([cache](/david/cache/2020/542585b2d85213911f91b498a643e010/))</cite>


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## Vivre avec

> Les termes par lesquels les langues modernes expriment en général la contrainte, observe-t-elle [Dorothy Lee], se retrouvent chez les Wintu en des tournures qui dénotent la coopération. C’est ainsi qu’une mère n’« emmène » pas son bébé à l’ombre ; elle y « va avec lui ». Un chef ne « dirige » pas son peuple ; il « se tient à ses côtés ». De toute façon, il n’est jamais plus qu’un conseiller et ne dispose d’aucun moyen de contrainte pour faire prévaloir ses vues. Les Wintu, note encore Dorothy Lee « ne disent jamais, et en fait ne pourraient pas dire, comme nous, “j’ai une sœur” ou “un fils” ou “un mari”. “*Vivre avec*” est l’expression qui leur sert habituellement à traduire ce que nous appelons la possession, et ils l’emploient pour tout ce qu’ils respectent ; si bien que l’on dira d’un homme qu’il vit avec son arc et ses flèches ».
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> <cite>Entretien dans la revue *Philosophica, vol XIII* en 1974, extrait de *[Pouvoir de détruire, pouvoir de créer](/david/2020/12/21/#pouvoir-de-detruire-pouvoir-de-creer)*, Murray Bookchin</cite>

Cela résonne fort avec le fait de [me sentir père](/david/stream/2015/10/31/).

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<p>Writing social software is hard. And, as I said, the act of writing social software is more like the work of an economist or a political scientist. And the act of hosting social software, the relationship of someone who hosts it is more like a relationship of landlords to tenants than owners to boxes in a warehouse. </p> <p>Writing social software is hard. And, as I said, the act of writing social software is more like the work of an economist or a political scientist. And the act of hosting social software, the relationship of someone who hosts it is more like a relationship of landlords to tenants than owners to boxes in a warehouse. </p>
<p>[…]</p> <p>[…]</p>
<p>The patterns here, I am suggesting, both the things to accept and the things to design for, are givens. Assume these as a kind of social platform, and then you can start going out and building on top of that the interesting stuff that I think is going to be the real result of this period of experimentation with social software. </p> <p>The patterns here, I am suggesting, both the things to accept and the things to design for, are givens. Assume these as a kind of social platform, and then you can start going out and building on top of that the interesting stuff that I think is going to be the real result of this period of experimentation with social software. </p>
<p><cite><em><a href="http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html">A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy</a></em> (<a href="/david/cache/4d81a301bbb7936312cd16e6674f3ff6/">cache</a>)</cite></p>
<p><cite><em><a href="http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html">A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy</a></em> (<a href="/david/cache/2020/4d81a301bbb7936312cd16e6674f3ff6/">cache</a>)</cite></p>
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<p>Everything is here, since 2003. To sum up even if I encourage you to read the whole piece:</p> <p>Everything is here, since 2003. To sum up even if I encourage you to read the whole piece:</p>
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Other articles in English: Other articles in English:
<a href="/david/blog/2018/caching-links/">On caching links</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2018/caching-links/">On caching links</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2018/bushcraft-retrospective/">Bushcraft retrospective</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2018/bushcraft-retrospective/">Bushcraft retrospective</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2018/into-the-raft/">Into the Raft</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2018/into-the-raft/">Into the Raft</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2018/into-the-bugs/">Into the Bugs</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2018/into-the-bugs/">Into the Bugs</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2018/meritocracy-crisis/">Meritocracy crisis</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2018/meritocracy-crisis/">Meritocracy crisis</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2018/seller-teacher-wise/">The Seller, the Teacher and the Wise</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2018/seller-teacher-wise/">The Seller, the Teacher and the Wise</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2018/into-the-good/">Into the Good</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2018/into-the-good/">Into the Good</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2018/into-the-mice/">Into the Mice</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2018/into-the-mice/">Into the Mice</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2018/into-the-camp/">Into the Camp</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2018/into-the-camp/">Into the Camp</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2018/into-the-wind/">Into the Wind</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2018/into-the-wind/">Into the Wind</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2018/into-the-snow/">Into the Snow</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2018/into-the-snow/">Into the Snow</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2018/into-the-cold/">Into the Cold</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2018/into-the-cold/">Into the Cold</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2017/async-python-frameworks/">Async Python Frameworks</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2017/async-python-frameworks/">Async Python Frameworks</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2017/distributed-teams/">Distributed teams</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2017/distributed-teams/">Distributed teams</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2017/into-the-wild/">Into the Wild</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2017/into-the-wild/">Into the Wild</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2017/without-javascript/">Without JavaScript</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2017/without-javascript/">Without JavaScript</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2017/inclusive-python/">Inclusive Python</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2017/inclusive-python/">Inclusive Python</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2017/micro-cultures-governance/">Micro-cultures and governance</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2017/micro-cultures-governance/">Micro-cultures and governance</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2017/resilient-web-tools/">Resilient Web and Tools</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2017/resilient-web-tools/">Resilient Web and Tools</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2017/bitcoin-energy/">Bitcoin and energy</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2017/bitcoin-energy/">Bitcoin and energy</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2016/team-building/">Team building</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2016/team-building/">Team building</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2016/inclusive-developer/">Inclusive developer</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2016/inclusive-developer/">Inclusive developer</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2016/cultural-intimacy/">Cultural Intimacy</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2016/cultural-intimacy/">Cultural Intimacy</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2016/tools-teams/">Tools and teams</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2016/tools-teams/">Tools and teams</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2016/senior-developer/">Senior developer</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2016/senior-developer/">Senior developer</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2016/slow-data/">Slow Data</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2016/slow-data/">Slow Data</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2016/inclusive-communities/">Inclusive communities</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2016/inclusive-communities/">Inclusive communities</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2016/delivery-values/">Delivery and value(s)</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2016/delivery-values/">Delivery and value(s)</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2016/collaboration-debt/">Collaboration debt</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2016/collaboration-debt/">Collaboration debt</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2016/communities-leadership/">Communities and leadership</a>, <a href="/david/blog/2016/communities-leadership/">Communities and leadership</a>,
<a href="/david/blog/2016/specifications-apis/">Specifications and APIs</a>. <a href="/david/blog/2016/specifications-apis/">Specifications and APIs</a>.
Oh, and most of <a href="/david/stream/2018/">the 2018 thoughts</a>. Oh, and most of <a href="/david/stream/2018/">the 2018 thoughts</a>.
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> The patterns here, I am suggesting, both the things to accept and the things to design for, are givens. Assume these as a kind of social platform, and then you can start going out and building on top of that the interesting stuff that I think is going to be the real result of this period of experimentation with social software. > The patterns here, I am suggesting, both the things to accept and the things to design for, are givens. Assume these as a kind of social platform, and then you can start going out and building on top of that the interesting stuff that I think is going to be the real result of this period of experimentation with social software.
> >
> <cite>*[A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy](http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html)* ([cache](/david/cache/4d81a301bbb7936312cd16e6674f3ff6/))</cite>
> <cite>*[A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy](http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html)* ([cache](/david/cache/2020/4d81a301bbb7936312cd16e6674f3ff6/))</cite>


Everything is here, since 2003. To sum up even if I encourage you to read the whole piece: Everything is here, since 2003. To sum up even if I encourage you to read the whole piece:




I kind of find these patterns in every group I joined. It should be taken into account within a [local constitution](/david/stream/2018/01/17/). Somehow reminds me [patterns I tried to identify](/david/thoughts/#communities) myself. *Oh my god*, re-reading that piece five years later I realize I already linked to that same page from there… I kind of find these patterns in every group I joined. It should be taken into account within a [local constitution](/david/stream/2018/01/17/). Somehow reminds me [patterns I tried to identify](/david/thoughts/#communities) myself. *Oh my god*, re-reading that piece five years later I realize I already linked to that same page from there…


Am I really looping over my own thoughts indefinitely?
Am I really looping over my own thoughts indefinitely?

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<div property="schema:articleBody"><p><em>Note: this article is a summary of my 12 minutes talk at <a href="http://rencontres.django-fr.org/2012/">djangocong</a>.</em></p> <div property="schema:articleBody"><p><em>Note: this article is a summary of my 12 minutes talk at <a href="http://rencontres.django-fr.org/2012/">djangocong</a>.</em></p>
<p>I’m in Japan for 7 months now and I thought that the harder times would have been to deal with the distance from family and friends. Actually, it’s not. Because those people can take a plane or give a Skype call, what is difficult is to be far from your communities.</p> <p>I’m in Japan for 7 months now and I thought that the harder times would have been to deal with the distance from family and friends. Actually, it’s not. Because those people can take a plane or give a Skype call, what is difficult is to be far from your communities.</p>
<p>A community is a group of people (cum) sharing something (munus), this is all about sharing a common good and interacting with the other members of the group. I think we can go a bit further in that definition adding the notions of <em>vision</em> and <em>values</em> associated to that group. During that time in Japan I realized how important communities are, not only to interact with but because they define yourself. <strong>Your personal story is the sum of all interactions you have with your communities.</strong> (<em>Warning</em>: if you’re only defining yourself with one community, it’s probably a sect.)</p> <p>A community is a group of people (cum) sharing something (munus), this is all about sharing a common good and interacting with the other members of the group. I think we can go a bit further in that definition adding the notions of <em>vision</em> and <em>values</em> associated to that group. During that time in Japan I realized how important communities are, not only to interact with but because they define yourself. <strong>Your personal story is the sum of all interactions you have with your communities.</strong> (<em>Warning</em>: if you’re only defining yourself with one community, it’s probably a sect.)</p>
<p>Initially, you probably started to ask for help as your first contact with the Django community but that was an transient state to both increase your knowledge and know cultural codes of this particular community, to be able to communicate, to feel part of it and to give your knowledge back. Unfortunately some people never reach that point and I think that it has to do with the size of the community. I highly recommend the reading of Clay Shirky, <a href="http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html">A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy</a> on this topic:</p>
<p>Initially, you probably started to ask for help as your first contact with the Django community but that was an transient state to both increase your knowledge and know cultural codes of this particular community, to be able to communicate, to feel part of it and to give your knowledge back. Unfortunately some people never reach that point and I think that it has to do with the size of the community. I highly recommend the reading of Clay Shirky, <a href="http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html">A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy</a> (<a href="/david/cache/2020/4d81a301bbb7936312cd16e6674f3ff6/">cache</a>) on this topic:</p>
<blockquote> <blockquote>
<p>And, finally, you have to find a way to spare the group from scale. Scale alone kills conversations, because conversations require dense two-way conversations.</p> <p>And, finally, you have to find a way to spare the group from scale. Scale alone kills conversations, because conversations require dense two-way conversations.</p>
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<div property="schema:articleBody"><p><em>Note: this article is a summary of my 12 minutes talk at <a href="http://rencontres.django-fr.org/2012/">djangocong</a>.</em></p> <div property="schema:articleBody"><p><em>Note: this article is a summary of my 12 minutes talk at <a href="http://rencontres.django-fr.org/2012/">djangocong</a>.</em></p>
<p>I’m in Japan for 7 months now and I thought that the harder times would have been to deal with the distance from family and friends. Actually, it’s not. Because those people can take a plane or give a Skype call, what is difficult is to be far from your communities.</p> <p>I’m in Japan for 7 months now and I thought that the harder times would have been to deal with the distance from family and friends. Actually, it’s not. Because those people can take a plane or give a Skype call, what is difficult is to be far from your communities.</p>
<p>A community is a group of people (cum) sharing something (munus), this is all about sharing a common good and interacting with the other members of the group. I think we can go a bit further in that definition adding the notions of <em>vision</em> and <em>values</em> associated to that group. During that time in Japan I realized how important communities are, not only to interact with but because they define yourself. <strong>Your personal story is the sum of all interactions you have with your communities.</strong> (<em>Warning</em>: if you’re only defining yourself with one community, it’s probably a sect.)</p> <p>A community is a group of people (cum) sharing something (munus), this is all about sharing a common good and interacting with the other members of the group. I think we can go a bit further in that definition adding the notions of <em>vision</em> and <em>values</em> associated to that group. During that time in Japan I realized how important communities are, not only to interact with but because they define yourself. <strong>Your personal story is the sum of all interactions you have with your communities.</strong> (<em>Warning</em>: if you’re only defining yourself with one community, it’s probably a sect.)</p>
<p>Initially, you probably started to ask for help as your first contact with the Django community but that was an transient state to both increase your knowledge and know cultural codes of this particular community, to be able to communicate, to feel part of it and to give your knowledge back. Unfortunately some people never reach that point and I think that it has to do with the size of the community. I highly recommend the reading of Clay Shirky, <a href="http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html">A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy</a> on this topic:</p>
<p>Initially, you probably started to ask for help as your first contact with the Django community but that was an transient state to both increase your knowledge and know cultural codes of this particular community, to be able to communicate, to feel part of it and to give your knowledge back. Unfortunately some people never reach that point and I think that it has to do with the size of the community. I highly recommend the reading of Clay Shirky, <a href="http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html">A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy</a> (<a href="/david/cache/2020/4d81a301bbb7936312cd16e6674f3ff6/">cache</a>) on this topic:</p>
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<p>And, finally, you have to find a way to spare the group from scale. Scale alone kills conversations, because conversations require dense two-way conversations.</p> <p>And, finally, you have to find a way to spare the group from scale. Scale alone kills conversations, because conversations require dense two-way conversations.</p>
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