Decision-Making and Bias

How do organizations decay? This series explores the fundamental laws that govern how organizations grow, shrink, and evolve over time.

How did we arrive at a system that measures success by GDP, even as it depletes our planet and erodes our well-being?

A satirical exercise in the tradition of Machiavelli's* The Prince *— examining the mechanics of state capture through the eyes of those who would engineer it.

Al-Jahiz's 9th-century treatise on trade reveals a world where merchants verified authenticity through taste, touch, and smell — a forensic economy that predates modern supply chains by a millennium.