EDIT to add some colour to my endorsement of the 80000hours link: I’ve personally found it beneficial in a few ways. One such is that although the value of coordination is ‘obvious’, I nevertheless have recognised in myself some of the traits of ‘single-player thinking’ described.
Great summary! A nit:
it’s more likely our monkey (or ape) brains that love politics. e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41612352
On the note of monkey-business—what about investments in collective knowledge and collaboration? If you’ve not come across this, you might like it https://80000hours.org/articles/coordination/
EDIT to add some colour to my endorsement of the 80000hours link: I’ve personally found it beneficial in a few ways. One such is that although the value of coordination is ‘obvious’, I nevertheless have recognised in myself some of the traits of ‘single-player thinking’ described.