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During shocks and disasters, what factors help us survive and thrive? In my book Building Resilience I argue that #socialcapital - the ties that build us - are critical, more important than aid, wealth, and physical infrastructure
https://www.amazon.com/Building-Resilience-Capital-Post-Disaster-Recovery/dp/0226012883 -
When thinking about #disasters, we focus too much on individual behaviors (prepping, hoarding) and state-level behaviors (seawalls, berms, infrastructure projects). We need to focus on the most important element: our networks and #socialcapital
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When thinking about #disasters, we focus too much on individual behaviors (prepping, hoarding) and state-level behaviors (seawalls, berms, infrastructure projects). We need to focus on the most important element: our networks and #socialcapital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4oY0suwvRQ -
When thinking about #disasters, we focus too much on individual behaviors (prepping, hoarding) and state-level behaviors (seawalls, berms, infrastructure projects). We need to focus on the most important element: our networks and #socialcapital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4oY0suwvRQ -
When thinking about #disasters, we focus too much on individual behaviors (prepping, hoarding) and state-level behaviors (seawalls, berms, infrastructure projects). We need to focus on the most important element: our networks and #socialcapital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4oY0suwvRQ -
When thinking about #disasters, we focus too much on individual behaviors (prepping, hoarding) and state-level behaviors (seawalls, berms, infrastructure projects). We need to focus on the most important element: our networks and #socialcapital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4oY0suwvRQ -
Honored to see that others have found my work on #socialcapital, #disasters, and #resilience useful
https://research.com/u/daniel-p-aldrich -
Honored to see that others have found my work on #socialcapital, #disasters, and #resilience useful
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@guidostevens/116458929555924975
"[...] the real shift is, to slow down in the company of other like-minded people making the same shift […] to strengthen local and wider-region mutual support networks"
My good friend @guidostevens
is *literally* on fire 🔥 with this poignant, mind-blowing essay on the pernicious harms inflicted by #Algorithms and #GenAI in building, nurturing and sustaining out personal / business relationships.Highly recommended read!👌🏻😎
#SovereignByDesign #asynco #cmgr #SocialNetworking #SocialCapital #KM
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@guidostevens/116458929555924975
"[...] the real shift is, to slow down in the company of other like-minded people making the same shift […] to strengthen local and wider-region mutual support networks"
My good friend @guidostevens
is *literally* on fire 🔥 with this poignant, mind-blowing essay on the pernicious harms inflicted by #Algorithms and #GenAI in building, nurturing and sustaining out personal / business relationships.Highly recommended read!👌🏻😎
#SovereignByDesign #asynco #cmgr #SocialNetworking #SocialCapital #KM
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@guidostevens/116458929555924975
"[...] the real shift is, to slow down in the company of other like-minded people making the same shift […] to strengthen local and wider-region mutual support networks"
My good friend @guidostevens
is *literally* on fire 🔥 with this poignant, mind-blowing essay on the pernicious harms inflicted by #Algorithms and #GenAI in building, nurturing and sustaining out personal / business relationships.Highly recommended read!👌🏻😎
#SovereignByDesign #asynco #cmgr #SocialNetworking #SocialCapital #KM
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@guidostevens/116458929555924975
"[...] the real shift is, to slow down in the company of other like-minded people making the same shift […] to strengthen local and wider-region mutual support networks"
My good friend @guidostevens
is *literally* on fire 🔥 with this poignant, mind-blowing essay on the pernicious harms inflicted by #Algorithms and #GenAI in building, nurturing and sustaining out personal / business relationships.Highly recommended read!👌🏻😎
#SovereignByDesign #asynco #cmgr #SocialNetworking #SocialCapital #KM
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@guidostevens/116458929555924975
"[...] the real shift is, to slow down in the company of other like-minded people making the same shift […] to strengthen local and wider-region mutual support networks"
My good friend @guidostevens
is *literally* on fire 🔥 with this poignant, mind-blowing essay on the pernicious harms inflicted by #Algorithms and #GenAI in building, nurturing and sustaining out personal / business relationships.Highly recommended read!👌🏻😎
#SovereignByDesign #asynco #cmgr #SocialNetworking #SocialCapital #KM
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"In 2005, we spoke about 16,632 words every day. By 2019, that number had fallen to 11,900"
I suspect those numbers are *much* smaller nowadays, if anything because of what's shared across with this other poignant quote, shared below:
"Talking requires you to pay attention to what the other person is saying, formulate a response and control your physical reaction, all within about 200 milliseconds" 😳🤯
More info 👉🏻 https://archive.is/J0QpW
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"In 2005, we spoke about 16,632 words every day. By 2019, that number had fallen to 11,900"
I suspect those numbers are *much* smaller nowadays, if anything because of what's shared across with this other poignant quote, shared below:
"Talking requires you to pay attention to what the other person is saying, formulate a response and control your physical reaction, all within about 200 milliseconds" 😳🤯
More info 👉🏻 https://archive.is/J0QpW
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"In 2005, we spoke about 16,632 words every day. By 2019, that number had fallen to 11,900"
I suspect those numbers are *much* smaller nowadays, if anything because of what's shared across with this other poignant quote, shared below:
"Talking requires you to pay attention to what the other person is saying, formulate a response and control your physical reaction, all within about 200 milliseconds" 😳🤯
More info 👉🏻 https://archive.is/J0QpW
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"In 2005, we spoke about 16,632 words every day. By 2019, that number had fallen to 11,900"
I suspect those numbers are *much* smaller nowadays, if anything because of what's shared across with this other poignant quote, shared below:
"Talking requires you to pay attention to what the other person is saying, formulate a response and control your physical reaction, all within about 200 milliseconds" 😳🤯
More info 👉🏻 https://archive.is/J0QpW
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Fire sale on my book Building Resilience which argues that during shocks and disasters, #socialcapital - the ties that bind us - accelerate recovery and build resilience more than other factors
https://www.amazon.com/Building-Resilience-Capital-Post-Disaster-Recovery-ebook/dp/B008RMK3GO/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0 -
Fire sale ($3 USD!) on my book Building Resilience which argues that during shocks and disasters our ties to each other - called #socialcapital - are critical for surviving and thriving
https://www.amazon.com/Building-Resilience-Capital-Post-Disaster-Recovery-ebook/dp/B008RMK3GO?ref_=ast_author_mpb -
During shocks and disasters, what factors help us survive and thrive? In my PrepTalk for FEMA I argue that #socialcapital - the ties that bind us - are critical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7A8m0zQ6T8 -
Fire sale on my book Building Resilience which argues that #socialcapital - the ties that bind us together - are critical for surviving and thriving during shocks
https://www.amazon.com/Building-Resilience-Capital-Post-Disaster-Recovery-ebook/dp/B008RMK3GO?ref_=ast_author_mpb -
Fire sale on my book Building Resilience which argues that #socialcapital - the ties that bind us - are critical for surviving and thriving during shocks
https://www.amazon.com/Building-Resilience-Capital-Post-Disaster-Recovery-ebook/dp/B008RMK3GO -
“Social scientists have identified at least three major forces that collectively bind together successful #democracies: #socialcapital (extensive social networks with high levels of trust), #stronginstitutions, and shared #stories. #Socialmedia has weakened all three.”
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mgzhdx3fes2e -
During shocks and disasters, what factors help us survive and thrive? In my PrepTalk for @fema I argue that #socialcapital - the ties that bind us together - are critical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7A8m0zQ6T8 -
During shocks and disasters, what factors help us survive and thrive? In my PrepTalk for @fema I argue that #socialcapital - the networks of trust and interaction that tie us together - is critical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7A8m0zQ6T8 -
Want to measure bonding, bridging, and linking #socialcapital in the US? Our new #article with Dean Kyne and Dominic Kyei does that
TL;DR: social capital index (SoCI) complements existing indicators and deepens understanding of capacity and and resilience
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/15/2/138 -
Fire sale on my book Building Resilience
TL;DR: during shocks and crises, #socialcapital -the ties that bind us together - are critical for surviving and thriving
https://www.amazon.com/Building-Resilience-Capital-Post-Disaster-Recovery-ebook/dp/B008RMK3GO/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0 -
When Japan faced a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, a 60+ foot tsunami, and meltdowns at #Fukushima, what factors helped people survive and thrive? In my book Black Wave I argue that #socialcapital - the ties that bind us - and governance were critical
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07V9M9XJS/ref=mes-dp?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=lCEj1&content-id=amzn1.sym.68a48b3d-8323-44f6-bbc2-414df317110f&pf_rd_p=68a48b3d-8323-44f6-bbc2-414df317110f&pf_rd_r=R8YWNFTZVH2Z3W11V3WB&pd_rd_wg=FRAG1&pd_rd_r=58ca9603-08c2-458f-8f22-efffea826480 -
During shocks and disasters, what factors help us survive and thrive? In my PrepTalk for FEMA I argued that #socialcapital - the ties that bind us to each other - are critical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7A8m0zQ6T8 -
“Individuals may form communities, but only institutions can create a nation”*…
Traffic police in Rome, 1981.Good institutions are social technologies that scale trust from personal relations to entire nations. Game theorist and social scientist Julien Lie-Panis unpacks the extraordinary phenomenon of human cooperation to explain how– and why– institutions work…
Every human society, from the smallest village to the largest nation, faces the same fundamental challenge: how to get people to act in the interests of the collective rather than their own. Fishermen must limit their catch so fish stocks don’t collapse. People must respect others’ property and safety. Citizens must pay taxes to fund roads, schools and hospitals. Left to pure self-interest, no community could endure; the bonds of collective life would quickly unravel.
The solutions we’ve devised are remarkably similar across cultures and centuries. We create rules. Then we appoint guardians to enforce them. Those who break the rules are punished. But there’s a problem with this approach, one that the Roman poet Juvenal identified nearly 2,000 years ago: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards themselves?
Fisheries appoint monitors to prevent overfishing – but what if the monitors accept bribes to look the other way? Police officers exist to protect everyone’s property and safety – but who ensures that they don’t abuse their power? Governments collect taxes for public services – but how do we stop officials from diverting the funds to their own accounts?
Every institution faces the same fundamental paradox. Institutions foster cooperation by rewarding good behaviour and punishing rule-breakers. Yet they themselves depend on cooperative members to function. We haven’t solved the cooperation problem – we’ve simply moved it back one step. So why do institutions work at all? To understand this puzzle, we need to first ask what makes human cooperation so extraordinary in the natural world…
[Lie-Panis explores human cooperation, and examines the ways in which, while it follows the same evolutionary rules as cooperation among other species, humans have expanded the ambit of their coordination. He explains the ways in which institutions depend on “a present-future trade-off,” on its constituents’ patience as it works through problems. And he illustrates the ways in which constituents’ concerns with material security and social capital can generate that patience. He concludes…]
… Institutions can thus be understood as social technologies. We engineer them constantly, often without realising it. When neighbours organise to maintain a shared garden or playground, they appoint a small committee to manage funds and decisions. The arrangement works because it transforms the hard problem of coordinating dozens of contributors into the easier problem of trusting a few visible people who can be praised for diligence or blamed for misuse.
Like any tool, institutions cannot create what isn’t already there; they can only amplify existing cooperative capacity. Institutions rest on the conditions that make cooperation rational: material security and social capital. Where those conditions hold, reputation can work at scale. One layer of accountability supports the next, until cooperation extends far beyond the limits of familiarity. From the same force that binds vampire bats and coral reef fish, we have built cities, markets, and nations. Institutions are how trust is scaled to millions of strangers.
Eminently worth reading in full: “Guarding the Guardians,” from @jliep.bsky.social in @aeon.co.
Apposite (albeit a bit orthogonal): “Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings,” from @marco-giancotti.bsky.social.
* Benjamin Disraeli
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As we get along, we might recall that it was on this date in 1938 that a film poking fun at a plethora of institutions, Howard Hawks’ comedy Bringing Up Baby, premiered at the Golden Gate Theater in San Francisco. Featuring Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, and a leopard, the film earned good reviews but suffered at the box office. Indeed, Hepburn’s career fell into a slump– she was one of a group of actors labeled as “box office poison” by the Independent Theatre Owners of America– that she broke with The Philadelphia Story (again with Grant) in 1940.
As for Bringing Up Baby, the film did well when re-released in the 1940s, and grew further in popularity when it began to be shown on television in the 1950s. Today it is recognized as the authentic screwball classic that it is; it sits at 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, and ranks among “Top 100” on lists from the American Film Institute and the National Society of Film Critics.
#BringingUpBaby #CaryGrant #cooperation #culture #film #history #HowardHawks #institutions #KatherineHepburn #movies #politics #reputation #socialCapital #socialInfrastructure #socialTechnology #society -
When Japanese communities faced a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, 60+ foot, and meltdowns at #Fukushima Dai-ichi, what factors helped them survive and thrive? In my book I show that #socialcapital - the horizontal and vertical ties that bind us - are critical
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07V9M9XJS/ref=mes-dp?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=gPY1w&content-id=amzn1.sym.68a48b3d-8323-44f6-bbc2-414df317110f&pf_rd_p=68a48b3d-8323-44f6-bbc2-414df317110f&pf_rd_r=3VRM67ZSETW8QDWRZE78&pd_rd_wg=TKtr7&pd_rd_r=d228b824-64b9-4e30-aff9-4d65faa74701 -
During Japan's 3/11 disasters, physical infrastructure, monetary aid, and personal demographics had little connection to surviving and thriving. Instead, #socialcapital - the horizontal and vertical ties that bring us together - was critical
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Wave-Networks-Governance-Disasters-ebook/dp/B07V9M9XJS/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0 -
What factors help us survive and thrive during shocks and disasters? In my book Building Resilience - on sale now - I argue that #socialcapital - the ties that bind us - is critical
https://www.amazon.com/Building-Resilience-Capital-Post-Disaster-Recovery-ebook/dp/B008RMK3GO/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0 -
During shocks and disasters, what helps us survive and thrive? In my PrepTalk for @fema, I argue that #socialcapital - the ties between us - are critical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7A8m0zQ6T8 -
During shocks and disasters, what factors help us survive and thrive? In my PrepTalk for FEMA I argue that #socialcapital - the ties that bind us - are critical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7A8m0zQ6T8 -
With winter storms coming to much of the US, take a moment to think about those around you whose #socialcapital - their connections - may be weaker and may need help
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Thrilled that my book Building Resilience - which argues that #socialcapital, that is, the ties that bind us together - are critical sits among these amazing works
https://www.amazon.com/Building-Resilience-Capital-Post-Disaster-Recovery-ebook/dp/B008RMK3GO/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0 -
Fire sale (3 USD) on my book Building Resilience which argues that #socialcapital - the ties that bind us - are critical for surviving and thriving during shocks
https://www.amazon.com/Building-Resilience-Capital-Post-Disaster-Recovery-ebook/dp/B008RMK3GO/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0 -
During shocks and disasters, what factors help us survive and thrive? In my PrepTalk for @fema I argue that #socialcapital - the ties that bind us - is critical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7A8m0zQ6T8 -
Very excited to have worked with Renae Hanvin CEO of Resilient Ready to create a framework for measuring #socialcapital and #socialinfrastructure
TL;DR: invisible networks of trust and connection that shape how communities respond, and recover have been overlooked
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Very excited that with Resilient Ready we have put out a framework for mapping #socialcapital - the ties that bind us together - and #socialinfrastructure - the places and spaces where we build those ties and trust
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/396792279_Building_a_connected_and_resilient_Australia_by_measuring_our_invisible_infrastructure_October_2025_Publisher_Acknowledgement_of_Country -
Amazing that Resilient Ready built a tool for measuring #socialcapital and #socialinfrastructure for all of Australia
TL;DR: new framework brings social systems into the center of disaster planning, making social capital and social infrastructure measurable and actionable.
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Very excited about our new framework which measures #socialcapital and #socialinfrastructure!
TL;DR: invisible networks of trust and connection that shape how communities respond, and recover have been overlooked
https://sociabli.resilientready.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Resilient-Ready-Social-Capital-Sociabli-Framework.pdf -
Very excited about our new #socialcapital and #socialinfrastructure measurement framework
TL;DR: brings social systems into the center of disaster planning by making social capital and social infrastructure visible, measurable and actionable
https://sociabli.resilientready.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Resilient-Ready-Social-Capital-Sociabli-Framework.pdf -
Can volunteer-based #tutor #mentor programs help build bridging social capital for youth living in areas of concentrated poverty. I wrote this in 2019. tutormentor.blogspot.com/2019/07/unde... #SocialCapital #YouthDevelopment
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A brief meditation on social capital.
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry#FediCollective #InspirationQuotes #BrewBuild #BuildTogether #SocialCapital #PeerProduction #ThirdSpace #OpenWeb #DWeb
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry#FediCollective #InspirationQuotes #BrewBuild #BuildTogether #SocialCapital #PeerProduction #ThirdSpace #OpenWeb #DWeb
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry#FediCollective #InspirationQuotes #BrewBuild #BuildTogether #SocialCapital #PeerProduction #ThirdSpace #OpenWeb #DWeb
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry#FediCollective #InspirationQuotes #BrewBuild #BuildTogether #SocialCapital #PeerProduction #ThirdSpace #OpenWeb #DWeb