Cognitive Bias
The 9 Laws of Organizational Decay
·283 words·2 mins
How do organizations decay? This series explores the fundamental laws that govern how organizations grow, shrink, and evolve over time.
The Mind of the Maker- Part 1: The Illusion of Invulnerability: How the Titanic's Designers Dismissed the Iceberg Threat
·1297 words·7 mins
How psychological overconfidence transformed an advanced design into a death trap. The Titanic's story reveals how expertise can become a blindness.
The Endowment Effect of Digital Ownership: 5 Surprising Truths About Why We Overvalue What We Own
·1795 words·9 mins
Discover why the endowment effect makes us value our possessions more than they're worth—and how this cognitive bias shapes markets and identity.
The War of Words - Part 2: The Tyranny of the Narrating Self
·773 words·4 mins
How the brain's narrating self prioritizes emotional stories over rational facts in political decision-making.
Arenas of Influence – Part 1: The Politician's Playbook
·1147 words·6 mins
Exploring how political persuasion operates through emotions rather than reason, revealing the psychological mechanisms that drive voter behavior.
When Applause Becomes a Death Sentence - Part 2: The Illusion of Exemption: Alignment as a Survival Fantasy
·670 words·4 mins
Understanding how fear drives individuals to seek proximity to power, and why this proximity offers no protection from the violence it seeks to escape.