Decision-Making and Bias

How did we arrive at a system that measures success by GDP, even as it depletes our planet and erodes our well-being?

A satirical exercise in the tradition of Machiavelli's* The Prince *— examining the mechanics of state capture through the eyes of those who would engineer it.

Al-Jahiz's 9th-century treatise on trade reveals a world where merchants verified authenticity through taste, touch, and smell — a forensic economy that predates modern supply chains by a millennium.

A bridge built to flex. A design so elegant that its fundamental flaw became invisible. How commitment prevents correction.

How cognitive biases, organizational psychology, and human error transform theoretical designs into real-world disasters.

How psychological overconfidence transformed an advanced design into a death trap. The Titanic's story reveals how expertise can become a blindness.