^ “Intelligent minds are the result of either careful private cultivation, or participation in highly oriented collectives. As we have few consistently intelligent collectives at present, and have largely failed to organize any, it is nearly impossible… even in private… to compose anything resembling our humanity, intelligence or promise. For this reason I see it as urgent that we learn, together, in every possible moment and context, to forge and sustain intelligent collectives — particularly small, tightly-knit ‘team-like’ pods.”

— an a i