Systems Thinking

Exploring the three mechanisms of social power: deception, exchange, and coercion.

Exploring deception as a foundational mechanism of social power.

Proposing a restoration story to reclaim democracy from neoliberalism.

Examining how privatization creates tollbooth economies and leads to social isolation.

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.

Exploring the origins of neoliberalism from the Madeira deforestation to the 1938 Paris conference.

Exploring how unrivaled expertise serves as a hedge against systemic failures and crises.

Heron's Aeolipile, the world's first steam turbine from ancient Alexandria, demonstrating steam power principles that predated the Industrial Revolution by 1,600 years.

How water and tidal mills automated labor in ancient and medieval times, enabling industrial-scale production and laying foundations for Europe's first renaissance.

The five most surprising insights from a comprehensive systems engineering textbook that will change how you think about problem-solving.