The efficiency of 100 People

This week before fall equinox*, I'm going to the Source (of the Mississippi River), and I am launching a One Hundred People year.
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A friend suggested I alert local media when I hang the 100 God's eyes I'm making on the fence by the store.

Sweet of you, I said, but I am not interested in publicizing this. I want it (and me) to be small.
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Wrapping yarn around sticks seems to be something humans do all over. 
"God's eyes", the popsicle & yarn craft made in US summer camps, come from the Huichol people indigenous to Mexico.

Below, Greek thread frame for St. Barbara, patron saint of Greece, (donated to the thrift store)

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We grew up as a species in small bands.
We evolved to handle small numbers of people… Our grade school class, family (plus extensions), the neighborhood...

We've added software to take in much larger numbers--Big Gulps! 
Can we handle it?

I don't want to live in a medieval village or a rural American town.

God, no!
I love the benefits of big cities. The economy of scale: the hot running water, the grocery stores, the city buses, the libraries and parks. Entertainment and education. 
I love the independence, not being dependent on or policed by my neighbors.

But psychologically, I feel equipped to handle knowing about 100 people. That's probably the number of people I do currently know by name--including a handful of blog readers here. 
Hello, you!

Thinking about efficiency... **
Doing useful work, and the energy required to do it well.

Depends what you mean by "useful".
Feeding a populace, you deliver food in trucks.
Celebrating a birthday, you make a meal for a small gathering.

Depends what you mean by "work".
The direct emotional work of trucking is lighter than the face-to-face work of a dinner party.

Being off social media makes me more efficient with the people I have direct contact with. 
For my One-Hundred People Year, that's where I'll direct my powers.
This isn't a new practice in my life, actually,
 but it's a new intention.

My crew at work:

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* Fall equinox, Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 
1:19 PM Central US / 7:19 PM Greenwich

** Etymology of efficiency(n.)
1590s, the power to accomplish something.
From Latin efficere "work out, accomplish," 
(ex "out" + facere "to do").
In mechanics, "ratio of useful work done to energy expended," from 1858.