Human Systems and Behavior

The 9 Laws of Organizational Decay – Part: 2 The Mathematical Architecture of Organizational Inefficiency

15 April 2023·1099 words·6 mins

Human Systems and Behavior Systems Design Organizational Behavior Cognitive Bias Institutional Decay Systems Thinking Decision-Making and Bias Historical Case Studies Design and Innovation

The 9 Laws of Organizational Decay – Part: 1 The 9 Laws of Organizational Decay

15 April 2023·1824 words·9 mins

Human Systems and Behavior Systems Design Organizational Behavior Cognitive Bias Institutional Decay Systems Thinking Decision-Making and Bias Historical Case Studies Design and Innovation

The Architecture of Atrocity: Four Factors That Made Colonial Violence Systematic

11 February 2023·411 words·2 mins

Human Systems and Behavior Colonial History Settler Colonialism Genocide Studies Political Violence Historical Analysis Colonialism Historical Case Studies

A four-part examination of how unaccountable power, racial dehumanization, settler colonial logic, and economic imperatives combined to produce systematic violence across five centuries of colonial history.

The Architecture of Atrocity: Four Factors That Made Colonial Violence Systematic – The Architecture of Atrocity – Part 4: The Pattern Persists

11 February 2023·2176 words·11 mins

Human Systems and Behavior Colonial History Settler Colonialism Genocide Studies Political Violence Historical Analysis Colonialism Historical Case Studies

How the four-factor framework illuminates the ongoing settler colonial project in Palestine, from the 1948 Nakba to the present.

The Architecture of Atrocity: Four Factors That Made Colonial Violence Systematic – The Architecture of Atrocity – Part 3: The Corporation as Killing Machine

11 February 2023·1756 words·9 mins

Human Systems and Behavior Colonial History Settler Colonialism Genocide Studies Political Violence Historical Analysis Colonialism Historical Case Studies

How the Belgian Congo under King Leopold II demonstrated the fusion of unaccountable corporate power with extractive economics, causing an estimated 10 million deaths.

The Architecture of Atrocity: Four Factors That Made Colonial Violence Systematic – The Architecture of Atrocity – Part 2: Settler Logic and the Machinery of Erasure

11 February 2023·1803 words·9 mins

Human Systems and Behavior Colonial History Settler Colonialism Genocide Studies Political Violence Historical Analysis Colonialism Historical Case Studies

How North American and French Algerian settler colonialism transformed racial dehumanization into systematic policies of expulsion and elimination.

The Architecture of Atrocity: Four Factors That Made Colonial Violence Systematic – The Architecture of Atrocity – Part 1: The Blueprint Emerges in Banda

11 February 2023·1801 words·9 mins

Human Systems and Behavior Colonial History Settler Colonialism Genocide Studies Political Violence Historical Analysis Colonialism Historical Case Studies

How the Dutch East India Company’s 1621 massacre on the Banda Islands brought together all four factors for the first time, creating a template for colonial violence that would repeat across centuries.