Dear Friends,

It is clearly possible to create, grow, and maintain a thriving society. ****I’d like to know how, so I’m organizing a(nother) research group to study it.

Representative works include:

• Seeing Like a State
• Collaborative Circles
• The Royal Society
• The Federalist Papers
• Gotham, History of New York
• The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White
• The Warmth of Other Suns

The first books:

"From Third World to First", by the Statesman and Father of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, on how a once small fishing village navigated its rise to prosperity, despite limited natural resources.

“The Power Broker”, via Daniel’s great Maximum Power Broker event

The New York Scenes:

• Haswell-Tilden, Era of Consolidation -> Progressive Era
• Harlem Renaissance
• Hannah Arendt’s “New School”

I intend to investigate both small societies (5-50 people) and large ones (like Singapore and New York City).

Research topics include:

• Everything about human society (both foreign and domestic concerns)