Recovery · September 2, 2026
The Bias Blind Spot
Why learning about bias, intelligence, and introspection do not make us much better at seeing our own.
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Entrepreneurship · August 28, 2026
A Bonus That Has Never Been Zero
A bonus that has never once been zero tells the person receiving it almost nothing.
Read essay →Recovery · August 22, 2026
Motivated Reasoning Produces Good Arguments
Motivated reasoning does not produce flimsy excuses. It produces arguments strong enough to survive inspection.
Read essay →Systems · August 18, 2026
Why Nobody Owns the Whole Thing
The work of preventing failure has no visible output, which is why it is measured only on its bad days.
Read essay →Recovery · August 12, 2026
Confirmation Bias and the Test You Never Ran
The examples that agree with you cannot answer the question you are actually asking.
Read essay →Systems · August 7, 2026
Why Nobody Pays for Coordination
Coordination cannot be priced as an item, but payment form alone does not make it happen.
Read essay →Recovery · August 3, 2026
The Disease Model and Blame
Changing the causal story has not been shown to reduce blame. Changing the noun used for a person can.
Read essay →Entrepreneurship · July 29, 2026
Who the Reserve Belongs To
An owner’s claim on a reserve is real, conditional, and last in line.
Read essay →Systems · July 25, 2026
What Gets Lost in a Handoff
Information dies at a handoff because the receiving form decides what survives.
Read essay →Foundations · June 10, 2026
John Graunt’s Shop Arithmetic
What changed when a London tradesman treated a weekly plague warning as evidence about a city.
Read essay →Economics · June 10, 2026
The Hot Hand and Two Kinds of Bias
A famous study used a statistically biased instrument to measure a psychological bias. The difference matters.
Read essay →Recovery · January 13, 2020
Life Goes On: Reflections on 2019
A candid reflection on sobriety, family illness, loneliness, and the work that does not finish.
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