• Cooperation is a powerful way to move forward both as individuals and societies. All of us have given up some independence for access to resources provided by others.
• We can mitigate some negative effects by leveraging our community networks to create cooperative interactions that ...

Compounding is exponential growth. We tend to see the immediate linear relationships in the situation, e.g., how one test diagnoses one person.

The compounding effect of that relationship means that increased testing can lead to an exponential decrease in disease tran...

As we watch the pandemic and its consequences unfold, we see that leadership and authority are not the same things.

Disasters expose the cracks in our leadership. We also see people that display strong leadership without needing any authority.

Using mental models will help in understanding the dynamics of the large-scale social response.

We are currently seeing first-order negatives (closing businesses), and 2nd- and 3rd-order positives (reduced transmission, less stress on the healthcare system.)

We need to enco...

One quality of an ecosystem is its resilience - the speed at which an ecosystem recovers after a disturbance.

• One factor that interferes with our collective resilience is the thin buffer of our economy. The closing of shops and business has exposed the fragile supply...