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As Meg says, the concept of murmuration brings forth \"lots of individual units coming together to make amazing, unreal and stunning … ","reading_minutes":9},{"id":"b1a8e3e4-694b-4c3c-86af-8f97af9ff3ad","slug":"episode-seventy-one-a-symptom-masquerading-as","subject":"Episode Seventy One: A Symptom Masquerading As Disruption; Swarm","title":"A Symptom Masquerading As Disruption; Swarm","publish_date":"2014-05-01T00:00:00+00:00","year":2014,"month":5,"season":null,"episode":71,"episode_label":"episode 71","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/episode-seventy-one-a-symptom-masquerading-as/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1284,"context":" … Yes, <mark>swarming</mark> sounds cool to a tech/geek audience. And <mark>swarming</mark> does, in a way, describe the behaviour that people exhibit. But <mark>swarm</mark>-as-a-word comes with … ","reading_minutes":6}]}