Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

The cost of organising people falls to zero on the internet, and that wipes out intermediaries and layers of management that used to be necessary. Shirky documents how informal groups achieve results that once demanded formal institutions. A direct hit on the idea of compacting: when coordinating is free, the middle layers are redundant. It also anticipates what happens inside firms with AI — if anyone can execute, why all those layers of approval?