You’ve gotta love social scientists.
In the ongoing quest to squeeze every ounce of productivity from the burnout-destined drone age 20-to-40, they’re studying ways to measure collective intelligence.
Quotable quote:
Right now, the optimal size is probably somewhere between five and 10, but with the right collaboration tools, you could imagine having a group that kept getting more intelligent, up to 50, 100, or even 500 or 5,000 people.
::sigh::
Okay, be proud: You’ve got your name on the company, and you’re the centerpiece of this spiffy article. What you’re trying to do, though, it surmount human biology: We can keep 7 +/- 2 ( that is, anywhere from 5 to 9) things in our active memory at any one time. Whenever you go above that number, we forget. Managing over that many relationships day-to-day simply creates overhead.