To win, a side needs to stay coordinated, to act as one thing bigger than the sum of its parts.
- To win, a side needs to stay coordinated, to act as one thing bigger than the sum of its parts.
- That's easier if there's a schelling point, a thing that everyone takes for granted at the center.
- Either a long-term ideal that is bigger than anyone and has been true for a hundred years.
- Or a leader that everyone in the group acknowledges is the legitimate leader.
- Having one leader is "efficient".
- Less time spent disagreeing, more time figuring out how to execute.
- But it's also low resilience.
- If the universities had acted like one collective instead of a collection of universities they could have pushed back against authoritarian requests.
- Individually they were easy to intimidate and pick off.
- "United we stand, divided we fall."