Decision-Making and Bias
The Value Project: Ten Essays on the Architecture of Worth
·389 words·2 mins
Human Systems and Behavior
Perceived Value vs. True Value
Subjective Theory of Value
Conspicuous Consumption
Costly Signaling Theory
Manufactured Scarcity
Luxury Branding and Conglomerates
Authenticity and Aura
Attention Economy
Status Competition
Moral Limits of Markets
Commensuration and Abstraction
Veblen Effect
Anchoring and Decoy Effects
Art Market as Value Laboratory
Influencer Economy
Practical Wisdom (Phronesis)
Decision-Making and Bias
Consumer Psychology
Social Dynamics
Political Economy
The Value Project: Ten Investigative Essays on the Architecture of Worth.
The Governor and the Gambler: Engineering Rationality Against Loss Aversion
·2127 words·10 mins
Explore how human psychology leads to costly financial mistakes, using the centrifugal governor as a metaphor for rational control.
The Economics of Less: What Shrinkflation Reveals About Price, Perception, and Power
·1443 words·7 mins
Explore how shrinkflation silently increases costs through reduced product sizes, revealing the psychology of consumer inattentiveness and the power dynamics in modern retail economics.
Game Theory for Humans
·1411 words·7 mins
Discover five counter-intuitive secrets of ancient military engineering: Byzantine state secrets protected by angels, artillery built with cubic equations, and organic materials that outperform modern steel.
Blind to the Blade: The Psychology of Predictable Disaster
·373 words·2 mins
A deep dive into the psychological and systemic forces that cause powerful individuals to ignore explicit warnings and march toward predictable disaster.