But you're assuming that being a member of a team, prevents you from operating 
as an independent agent.  That's just not true.  Team membership doesn't 
redesign the individual from the genes up.  It simply changes the context in 
which the individual behaves.  And most team contexts are not as zero-sum 
constraining as you assume.  In fact, most team contexts are enabling, not 
restrictive.  For example, because my team has done things like pave 1000 mile 
long roads, built airplanes, deliver mail, etc, my individually driven agency 
is way more powerful than it would have otherwise been.

Or, to go back to the article, a forward can be, individually, a much better 
overall soccer player _because_ of the full backs, not in spite of them.

On 10/27/2016 07:46 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> And there are even more occult paths to success without the team, if a larger 
> solution space is considered to be better, and the same set of people follow 
> their noses as independent agents.   Looking around in a solution space isn't 
> free.  Each experiment takes some time and energy.   


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