Cooperation and organizing
These tools help people work together: starting initiatives, running polls, joining challenges, and holding each other accountable with a partner. Reading pages cover decision making, game theory and how networks and social capital work.
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Community
Initiatives
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Community
Opinion Polls
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Community
Challenges
Join or launch community challenges — steps, sleep, workouts, reading, and more.
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Community
Accountability Partners
Match with goal-aligned partners, send weekly check-ins, and hold each other accountable.
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Knowledge
Game Theory
The mathematics of strategic interaction.
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Knowledge
Decision Journal
Log major decisions with pre-mortems, confidence levels, and expected outcomes.
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Knowledge
Decision Theory
Expected utility theory (von Neumann-Morgenstern), prospect theory (Kahneman-Tversky: loss aversion, probability weighting, fourfold pattern), Bayesian decision theory.
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Decision-Making Science
Dual-process theory and the science of high-quality decisions.
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Knowledge
Decision Architecture
Thaler & Sunstein's nudge theory, choice architecture design, default effects, EAST Framework.
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Network Science
Barabási's scale-free networks, Watts-Strogatz small world networks.
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Decision Neuroscience
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Social Capital
Putnam's bonding/bridging/linking capital, Granovetter's strength of weak ties, structural holes and network brokerage (Burt), Ostrom's trust and commons governance.
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Help answers on this topic
Guides
- Consensus Decision Making: What It Is and How It WorksLearn what consensus decision making is, how it differs from consent and majority voting, the steps to follow, and how groups fix common problems.
- How to Run a Good MeetingPlain steps for running a good meeting in a volunteer group, committee or club: agenda, roles, timing, fair talk, decisions, notes and online tips.
- What Is a Cooperative and How Do You Start One?What a cooperative is, the main types, and the steps to start one: find a core group, test the idea, pick a legal structure, write bylaws and raise money.
- What Is Time Banking and How Does It Work?A plain guide to time banking: how members swap help hour for hour, who runs a time bank, what it can and cannot do, and how to join or start one.
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