The Tyrant's Mirror - Part 2: Power's Cognitive Distortions: What Absolute Authority Does to Judgment
·310 words·2 mins
How power alters judgment through isolation and distorted information.
Systems Thinking
The Tyrant's Mirror: Power, Psychology, and Moral Collapse
·149 words·1 min
An exploration of how power corrupts through psychological and systemic mechanisms.
The Tyrant's Mirror - Part 1: The Tyrant's Inner Narrative: How Power Justifies Itself
·440 words·3 mins
How tyrants begin with sincere narratives that justify their actions.
Sacred Profits - Part 5: When Systems Speak Louder Than Saints
·1928 words·10 mins
Examining the structural patterns of institutional coordination and their implications for understanding power.
Sacred Profits - Part 4: From Jerusalem to Manila
·2744 words·13 mins
Testing the coordination mechanism theory across different historical contexts and religious traditions.
Sacred Profits - Part 3: The Power Architecture
·1699 words·8 mins
Examining the organizational structures and enforcement mechanisms that enabled religious mobilization for elite objectives.
Sacred Profits - Part 2: Counting the Spoils
·1768 words·9 mins
Examining the economic returns and resource flows generated by crusading for different institutional actors.
Sacred Profits: The Institutional Economics of Holy War
·430 words·3 mins
A historical exploration of how religious institutions mobilized populations for elite economic interests through the Crusades and beyond.
Sacred Profits - Part 1: The Coordination Problem
·1362 words·7 mins
Exploring how religious institutions solve coordination problems for elite projects.
