The Entropic Mirage - Part 1: The Urban Mine and the Atacama Paradox15 January 2026·529 words·3 minsSustainability and Future Lithium Mining Sustainability Extraction Chile Urban Mining Environmental-Justice Sustainability Circular Economy Policy and Critique Systems ThinkingExploring how the promise of sustainable mining depends on rendering ecological and social costs invisible through 'entropic omissions.'
The Persistence of Power - Part 4: Why Abolishing Private Property Always Recreates Elites11 January 2026·720 words·4 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Private Property Elites Socialism Hierarchy Power Reorganization Development and Inequality Policy and Critique Systems Thinking Technological HistoryAnalyzing why attempts to abolish private property fail to eliminate hierarchy, instead reorganizing it.
The Persistence of Power - Part 3: How Capitalism Stabilized Itself by Exporting Its Costs10 January 2026·750 words·4 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Capitalism Cost Displacement Globalization Inequality System Stabilization Development and Inequality Policy and Critique Systems Thinking Technological HistoryExploring how capitalism survived its internal crises by displacing costs geographically and socially.
The Persistence of Power - Part 2: Marx Was Right About Power—and Wrong About Its Cure9 January 2026·747 words·4 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Marx Capitalism Socialism Power Concentration Historical Analysis Development and Inequality Policy and Critique Systems Thinking Technological HistoryExamining Marx's accurate diagnosis of power concentration and why his proposed cure of abolishing private property failed.
The Persistence of Power: Class Struggle Beyond Ideology8 January 2026·143 words·1 minHistory and Critical Analysis Class Struggle Power Dynamics Capitalism Socialism Inequality Automation Development and Inequality Policy and Critique Systems Thinking Technological History Political EconomyExamining how class struggle persists across different economic systems and ideologies, from capitalism to socialism to emerging AI-driven automation.
The Persistence of Power - Part 1: The Persistence of Class Struggle: A Structural, Not Ideological, Reality8 January 2026·1007 words·5 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Class Struggle Power Dynamics Inequality Structural Analysis Development and Inequality Policy and Critique Systems Thinking Technological HistoryExploring how class struggle endures as a structural property across different systems and ideologies.
The Mind of the Maker- Part 5: The Automation Paradox: How Boeing's MCAS System Exploited Pilot Trust5 January 2026·2013 words·10 minsHuman Systems and Behavior Boeing-737-MAX Automation-Bias Skill-Decay MCAS-Failure Pilot-Training Human-Automation Systems Thinking Leadership and CrisisA system designed to save the plane. First it had to override the pilots' instincts. Then it killed them.
The Mind of the Maker- Part 3: The Bureaucracy of Denial: Chernobyl and the System That Couldn't Say Stop3 January 2026·1719 words·9 minsHuman Systems and Behavior Chernobyl Organizational-Silence Authoritative-Deference Hierarchical-Failure Nuclear-Safety System Design Disaster Analysis Systems ThinkingHow rigid hierarchy and rigid procedure created psychological conditions where stopping the fatal safety test became impossible.
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 ThinkingHow cognitive biases, organizational psychology, and human error transform theoretical designs into real-world disasters.
What IKEA and Spotify Won't Tell You About the Swedish Dream18 December 2025·1497 words·8 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Sweden IKEA Spotify Social Model Economy Welfare State Policy and Critique Development and Inequality Systems Thinking Social Dynamics Political EconomyBeyond IKEA and ABBA: 5 Surprising Truths Hidden Inside the Swedish Model