Daniel Coyle

You can live in the algorithmic world where the algorithm will drive your choices and tell you what to do, and you can be

treated as a set of machine-like preferences.

And there's a humanist world.

There's a bit of a humanist revivals or community world.

So it feels like the community is having a bit of a comeback.

I hope that it is.

I like that, but I think the thing that I'm taking away too, just to connect those two worlds a bit, is how close they actually are.

Like experiment after experiment shows, and I think part of it is rooted in these attentional mode switches, that we have both systems inside ourselves, this kind of rugged individual, selfish, controlling, focused system, and this broad, warm, relational system.

because over and over in the book i end up encountering the same story which is well everybody was feeling disconnected and then we did these two three events and that really flipped it it wasn't like they had to start from zero and come up this we are pre-wired for community the place that captured most vividly for me was this neighborhood in paris called petit mont rouge and it was disconnected it was people in their phones pretty typical middle class neighborhood and there was a retired journalist

named Patrick Bernard, and he decided to do this experiment, which is, I'm gonna rent a ton of tables, like tables you get at Costco, right down the, 100 of them, and have a dinner for 800 people, lunch, the whole neighborhood, come to the neighborhood, longest table in Paris.

And then he set up a bunch of interest groups, let people to self-organize in interest groups.

And the only rule he had was no politics.

Don't talk about politics.

You must gather around a joy device of food or wine.

But other than that, no politics, be around a joy device.

And it's completely revitalized the neighborhood.

It didn't take years.

It didn't take bottom-up thinking.

It took experiences.

and when people experience community and experience the power of that of knowing their neighbor and feeling connected there was a woman there older woman who broke her wrist because this neighborhood now feels like a village this older woman broke her wrist and she had 15 offers from people who wanted to help her get her groceries