![]() ![]() Like water or electricity, it’s most forceful when it surges. It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. New power operates differently, like a current.It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven. Once gained, it is jealously guarded, and the powerful have a substantial store of it to spend. This book is about how to navigate and thrive in a world defined by the battle and balancing of two big forces. And those who have figured out how to channel all this energy and appetite are producing Russell’s “intended effects” in new and extraordinarily impactful ways. Our behaviors and expectations are changing. But the deeper truth is that we are changing. Yes, this is because technology has changed. Today, we have the capacity to make films, friends, or money to spread hope or spread our ideas to build community or build up movements to spread misinformation or propagate violence-all on a vastly greater scale and with greater potential impact than we did even a few years ago. Power, as philosopher Bertrand Russell puts it, is the “ability to produce intended effects.” ![]()
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