The Calculus of Conflict: Why Those Who Decide Rarely Pay
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A mathematical model explaining why nations repeatedly make catastrophic decisions to go to war, revealing the structural flaws in strategic decision-making.
Decision-Making and Bias
The Cognitive Architecture of Experience
·243 words·2 mins
Mapping the psychological, spatial, and linguistic systems that shape every experience we design.
The Architect's Dilemma - Part 2: Engineering Resilience in an Uncertain World
·1041 words·5 mins
How the Wright brothers' wind tunnel methodology informs modern systems resilience and reliability modeling.
The Architect's Dilemma: Navigating Complexity in Systems Design
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A two-part series exploring the challenges of systems engineering, from problem definition to engineering resilient solutions.
The Architect's Dilemma - Part 1: Why Great Solutions Often Solve the Wrong Problem
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Exploring why the most brilliant design is worthless if the problem was defined incorrectly from the start.
The Friction of Force: Clausewitz and the Architecture of Modern War - Part 5: The Politician’s Sword: Reintegrating Violence into Statecraft
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How Clausewitz viewed war as a political instrument, subordinate to governmental objectives and policy.