[FRIAM] the slacker rules

[Steven A Smith]

    "Sometimes the most you can do is nothingI"

I think this is a special case of impedance matching between the
individual and the "institution" within which the individual operates.


> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/science/ants-worker-idleness.html
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> -- rec --
>
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 6:56 PM Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org
> <mailto:rec at elf.org>> wrote:
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>     http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6403/672.full
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>     In which it turns out that sometimes a worker standing idle
>     contributes most efficiently to getting the collective job done.
>
>     -- rec --
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