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Do people achieve more together than as individuals?

Axis: collective action beats individual effort ... individuals drive change

John

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2007-07-02 new Through the Law of Compound Nerdfighting John argues that 100 nerdfighters together can do what 100 individuals cannot, so together they probably could have started a microfinance bank. Brotherhood 2.0: July 2nd: The Law of Compound Nerdfighting 00:00:59
2011-09-12 restate John says that together as a community Nerdfighters make better maps than any of them could make alone. Adorable Baby and Insufficient Cartography 00:02:16
2012-10-16 restate John says a year of teaching world history taught him that humans generally get less miserable when they collaborate. Burning Peeps, My OTP, and Velociraptors: It's Question Tuesday 00:03:02
2013-09-24 restate John calls the self-made individual a deeply flawed idea that makes us collaborate too little; nobody, not Drake nor Franklin, succeeds on their own. Started from the Bottom: Benjamin Franklin and Drake Compared 00:03:16

Hank

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2010-05-17 new Hank says the projects would be nothing without the people who chose to work on them; the real story of YouTube is groups doing things together. My YouTube Story is Short 00:01:34
2010-12-21 restate Hank says thousands of individuals giving what they can add up to a huge number, and the community combined with YouTube's platform is more powerful still. Thoughts on the Project for Awesome 00:02:51
2011-09-15 restate Hank says he could not have made ReadIt1st without the Nerdfighters he created it with. How to Make Ideas Real: Readit1st.com 00:03:28
2011-10-07 restate In his song Hank says there is so much to be done and many people to do it, together we get through it, and nobody does it all alone; ordinary acts make the world work. Steve Jobs and a Song 00:01:14
2012-06-08 restate Hank says he can be more productive because he has help from his teams, and that he likes to collaborate and be on a team. How to be More Productive...With Hank! 00:02:35
2012-08-24 restate Hank: what the brothers are able to do has more to do with the people who do it with them; no one does anything alone. Happy Birthday John Green! 00:01:42
2013-05-31 restate Hank: we avoid the apocalypse not through one superhero but by doing things together; we are the superhero, none of us individually but all of us together. Optimism is Not Insane 00:02:47