Design and Innovation

The Earth's Nine Boundaries #

The High Cost of Irrational Fear #

The Unfolding Story of Interdependence #

The Triumph of the Tangible #

The Faustian Bargain of Modern Harvests #

Modernity rests on the monumental flows of energy, goods, and data, creating a paradox of scale.

The Age of Extrasomatic Energy #

How the test cycle replaced reality — and why any system measured by a proxy diverges toward gaming the proxy rather than achieving the underlying goal.

Examines closed-loop certification, post-market surveillance, real-driving emissions regulations, and outcome-based contracting as the structural fixes for MPDI — and what separates regulators that apply them from those that don't.

Applies Goodhart's Law as the social science statement of MPDI: when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure — measurement gaming is the rational response to a compliance-incentive system.