The document discusses how human social instincts can be leveraged to create highly effective self-organizing groups. It provides patterns that have been observed to work across different domains, including simplicity, fluid structures, collaboration, engagement by choice, decentralization, transparency, and competition. The core architecture outlined involves defining a compelling mission, creating structures for collaboration, investing in seed projects, using problems to feed the structures, promoting active participants, and acting as a benevolent dictator. Examples mentioned include open source communities, radical management techniques, Wikipedia, and the early web.

1. Social Architecture 101 Messing with People for Fun & Profit by Pieter Hintjens 3 September, 2011

3. How come the same people, organized differently, can be 1000x more or less effective?

4. What makes the difference?

5. Can we understand what's going on?

6. Can we use this knowledge for benefit?

8. For 10K-25K generations

9. Consistent across domains and geography

10. Patterns based on human social instincts

11. Widely applicable

12. Software is a tangible test-bed

14. Accuracy of this process

15. Cost of this process

16. Speed of organization around new problems

17. Accuracy, speed, cost of answers

18. Cost of failure

20. Structure

21. Inertia

22. Limitations of individual minds

24. Ad-hoc structure

25. Fluidity

26. Collaboration

28. Engagement by choice

29. Freedom of access

30. Weak or no group identity

31. Well-written rules

32. Fair authority

34. Freedom to choose tasks

35. Decentralization = diversity

36. Open and transparent

37. Free workspaces

38. Remixable knowledge

40. Smooth learning curve = growth

41. Measurable success

42. Competition

43. Clear enemy

44. Sense of humour

46. Identity hierarchy

47. Meritocratic ranking

48. Metrics for success

49. Controlling spammers and trolls

50. Personal ownership

52. Create structures for collaboration

53. Invest in core 'seed' product

54. Feed structures with short term problems

55. Create competition for status

56. Promote most active participants

57. Develop codes for knowledge sharing

58. Act as benevolent dictator

60. Perfection precludes participation

61. Use free cloud services

62. Use existing legal frameworks

63. Power structures are liquid cement

65. “Radical management”

66. Political flash crowds (not movements)

67. Science (human genome project)

68. Wikipedia

69. The Web in general

71. Tweet about it before lunchtime

72. Apply to the groups you're involved in

73. Use for your own new groups

74. Thank you for being here!