Auroville is a small intentional community in South India with a population of around 2000 people.
And even when there is no sign of intentional wrongdoing, a small error can easily affect global markets.
"As I see it, one of the most unfortunate misunderstandings of our time has been to think of small intentional communities as groups 'within' the church," the philosopher Dick Westley writes in one of the many books celebrating the rise of small-group power.
That would be just one example of a tweak, unlocking the power of these small, intentional actions and priorities.
According to Dr. John Gottman, the small, intentional moments have more power than isolated, excessive gestures when it comes to creating and sustaining lasting love.
Although this may have been the case for the architects of the small-scale intentional communities he writes about, it was for the opposite reason that some of history's grander utopian projects — like Communism — were so avowedly anti-human.
The scale of the Youth Olympic Games is smaller than that of the Olympics, which is intentional and allows for smaller cities to host an Olympic event.
The increase of fingertip synchrony after the training session indicates that the large, voluntary, and intentional mimicry affects the small, involuntary, and unintentional body movement synchronization afterwards.
These human remains record the intentional killing of a small band of foragers with no deliberate burial, and provide unique evidence that warfare was part of the repertoire of inter-group relations among some prehistoric hunter-gatherers".
Credit Suisse warned it was unlikely to be profitable in the first quarter, partly because of this month's tough markets and partly because of previously flagged pricing errors that it said Thursday stemmed from "intentional misconduct by a small number of traders".
