The Salt Water Civilization: Why Our Metric for Progress Is Making Us Thirsty15 March 2026·144 words·1 minHistory and Critical Analysis Progress Economics Psychology History Disaster Analysis Development and Inequality Decision-Making and Bias Systems Thinking
The Salt Water Civilization – Part 4: What We Could Count Instead15 March 2026·1405 words·7 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Progress Economics Psychology History Disaster Analysis Development and Inequality Decision-Making and Bias Systems Thinking
The Salt Water Civilization – Part 3: The Tyranny of the Meter Stick15 March 2026·1415 words·7 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Progress Economics Psychology History Disaster Analysis Development and Inequality Decision-Making and Bias Systems Thinking
The Salt Water Civilization – Part 2: The Invention of the Hunger15 March 2026·1377 words·7 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Progress Economics Psychology History Disaster Analysis Development and Inequality Decision-Making and Bias Systems Thinking
The Salt Water Civilization – Part 1: The Pyramid Paradox15 March 2026·1241 words·6 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Progress Economics Psychology History Disaster Analysis Development and Inequality Decision-Making and Bias Systems Thinking
On the Feeding of the State1 March 2026·1677 words·8 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Political Theory State Capture Power Dynamics Behavioral Economics Policy Critique Optimization Decision-Making and Bias Policy and Critique
The Mind of the Maker- Part 4: The Sunk Cost Bridge: Tacoma Narrows and the Engineering Gambler's Fallacy4 January 2026·1772 words·9 minsHuman Systems and Behavior Tacoma-Narrows Sunk-Cost-Fallacy Confirmation-Bias Bridge-Failure Engineering Psychology Decision Making Disaster Analysis Decision-Making and Bias
The Mind of the Maker: Psychology of Engineering Failure1 January 2026·1268 words·6 minsHuman Systems and Behavior Engineering Psychology Cognitive Bias in Design Normalization of Deviance Engineering Failure Analysis Human Factors Engineering Organizational Psychology System-Design Safety Culture Decision-Making and Bias Disaster Analysis Systems Thinking
The Mind of the Maker- Part 1: The Illusion of Invulnerability: How the Titanic's Designers Dismissed the Iceberg Threat1 January 2026·1297 words·7 minsHuman Systems and Behavior Titanic Normalization of Deviance Expert-Blind-Spot Cognitive-Bias Engineering Psychology Design-Failures Disaster Analysis Decision-Making and Bias
When AI Designs Without Consequence1 December 2025·1727 words·9 minsSystems and Innovation AI Design Technology Judgment Responsibility Innovation Design and Innovation Systems Thinking Decision-Making and Bias Technological History
