Conversation

As humans, we have a tendency to want to celebrate individual humans for major accomplishments.

When was the last time an individual accomplished something unbelievable on their own? Rarely. When they did, they had a system of support around them. When they don't scale their team, the initiative collapses.

When a team accomplishes something, we celebrate the director, or the funder, or the CEO. It's always about ONE individual, and all the labour that the rest of the team put into it is minimalized externally.

This cult of personality is making us forget that working together is how society is built. We need to start recognizing teams and entities over individuals (unless we are recognizing every individual). 🧵 1/2