1/ The best teams are TIGHT TRIBES...https://twitter.com/wolfejosh/status/987181762399924224 …
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2/ It is controversial and you may not want to agree... To band together, we need a common enemy.pic.twitter.com/mh3X4yENMt
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3/ A friendship is always a little bit of a "conspiracy". Some "US" vs some "THEM"...pic.twitter.com/CBCSyKZq3H
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4/ -People have a falling out with a member of their social circle nearly TWICE a year -40% of those riffs never heal -Rates of conflict don't differ between MEN + WOMEN but women: -more likely to clash with close friends -express more anguish -demand more evidence of remorsepic.twitter.com/TEH6Bo1OPf
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5/ Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/science/friendship-discrimination.html … https://akademiai.com/doi/abs/10.1556/JEP-D-13-00024 … https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27002530
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6/ Underscores my view (cynical though it is) that 1) way to get 2 warring factions to peace? common 3rd enemy 2) best performing teams channel energy via the "we're great; they're not" mindset [as i don't believe the 'life is great' mindset is persistently attainable]
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Replying to @wolfejosh
LIGO may be an interesting contrary data point. No real competitors, no "them". Yet a good case can be made that the observation of gravitational waves was the most difficult thing ever done by the human race.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @wolfejosh
Extracting signal at better than 1 part in 10^21 is utterly mindboggling. They set out to do it in the 1970s, knowing it would take many decades, and persisted. My mind reels whenever I consider what they achieved.
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In some sense, perhaps nature was "them".
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