Alternative sociality

Vaughn Tan argues that amorphous organizations, whose membership is continuous rather than binary, can teach conventional organizations how to stay adaptable under uncertainty. He uses the Yak Collective (YC), a loosely bounded group of around 400 participants run mainly on Discord, as an example. He argues that YC's pressure to filter for high-quality participants now could erode the reservoirs of low-quality, more diverse members that may prove valuable in a future environment. He frames the core question as how an organization can accept persistent inefficiency to preserve its capacity to adapt.