So to begin, I invite you all to remember a time in your life, a period in your life when you felt fully integrated into a group.
Maybe you were on a sports team, maybe you played in a band, or maybe you just had a great group of friends that loved to hang out together, or maybe it was at work.
Maybe you were part of a team trying to do something big and difficult under time pressure, but you all pulled together.
Whatever it was, my question to you is does that memory glow?
Do you look back on that as something special and magical, that time in your life?
The great biologist E.O. Wilson says that humans aren't just social, like dogs and chimpanzees.
We are ultrasocial, like bees and ants.
We have a massive division of labor, and we love to do things that put us in a mindset of one for all, all for one.
Yet our hives aren't made out of wax. They're made out of shared culture and shared experiences.
My talk today isn't really about bees and ants.
