Human Systems and Behavior

How perception of resources shapes economic behavior from hunter-gatherers to digital abundance. We are the only species that creates artificial scarcity in an age of abundance.

Discover how scarcity creates powerful focus but dangerous tunnel vision, fundamentally changing how we think and make decisions.

Most oil-rich nations suffer economic decline, corruption, and political instability. Norway did the opposite. Here's the counterintuitive economics of why natural wealth usually destroys nations – and the specific policies that made Norway the exception.

The shocking truth about Olympic finances: systematic cost overruns, minimal economic benefits, and a legacy of debt.

From the paralysis of too many options to the strange power of ownership, discover the cognitive biases and emotional triggers that marketers exploit – and that shape every purchasing decision you make.

Examines how digital platforms follow a predictable three-stage decay lifecycle from user-centric value creation to shareholder extraction, using Google's internal DOJ memos as the primary evidentiary case.

A two-part forensic analysis of enshittification — the structural decay of digital platforms — tracing its mechanism, its institutional enablers, and the legal scaffolding that makes perpetual extraction possible.

Examines how digital platforms follow a predictable three-stage decay lifecycle from user-centric value creation to shareholder extraction, using Google's internal DOJ memos as the primary evidentiary case.