Systems Thinking
The Automated Panopticon: Navigating the Connected Car Revolution
·121 words·1 min
Exploring the privacy and data implications of connected cars in the modern world.
The Uninsurable Future: Climate Risk and the Collapse of Property Insurance
·355 words·2 mins
How the climate change is affecting property insurance markets, leading to soaring premiums and widespread nonrenewals.
The Geometry of Power: Shaping Behavior Through Design
·253 words·2 mins
How architectural and spatial design influence social dynamics, control, and power structures in organizations and societies.
Audit Your Instincts: The Playbook for Engineering Unbiased Decisions
·862 words·5 mins
Learn how to overcome cognitive biases in decision-making by auditing your instincts and using systematic decision hygiene.
The Alchemy of Empire: How Europe Forged the Modern World System
·311 words·2 mins
A critical analysis of how Europe's competitive fragmentation and imperial innovations created the modern global system of power, finance, and inequality.
The Re-Skinned Hammer
·1312 words·7 mins
An exploration of the Tupolev Tu-104, a Soviet jet airliner that was essentially a bomber with a new coat of paint.
The Mathematics of Tyranny: A Systems Analysis of Power's Darkest Form
·639 words·3 mins
A mathematical framework for understanding how tyranny emerges, persists, and can be prevented through institutional design.
The Hidden Arithmetic of Power: Deception, Exchange, and Coercion in Human Systems
·244 words·2 mins
Exploring the three mechanisms of social power: deception, exchange, and coercion.
The Great Enclosure: How Neoliberalism Turned Citizens into Consumers
·304 words·2 mins
A systemic X-ray of neoliberalism, turning citizens into consumers, a tollbooth economy extracting rent from essentials, and shifting blame onto individuals. The fix, a restoration story built on cooperation, commons, and participatory democracy.