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Contemporary Thinking
Smart People, Dumb Systems: Why Your Organization is Designed to Fail
Here is something that should bother you more than it does. Your company probably hired smart people. It might have ...
Why “Cancel Culture” Is a Failed Attempt at Centralized Morality
There is a particular kind of confidence that emerges when a crowd believes it has located the moral truth. Not ...
Is Crime Just a Bad Business Decision? Re-evaluating Modern Justice with Becker’s Calculus
Once, Gary Becker was running late to a student’s oral exam. He needed to park. The legal lot was far ...
The Moon and the Ghetto Paradox: Why Tech Advances While Society Stagnates
In 1977, Richard Nelson asked a question so simple it was almost embarrassing. If we can put a man on ...
Beyond the Buzzwords: How Wittgenstein Can Save Your Office from “Meaningless” Jargon
Somewhere right now, in a conference room with bad lighting and worse coffee, someone is saying the phrase “let us ...
Is Modern Finance a Branch of Metaphysics? Alfred North Whitehead Makes the Case
There is a strange moment in every finance textbook where the author quietly asks you to believe in something you ...
The Myth of the “Public Servant”: Why Bureaucrats Only Serve Their Own Expansion
There is a phrase so deeply embedded in political language that most people never stop to examine it. “Public servant.” ...
Why “Social Justice” Is the Enemy of Actual Justice
There is a peculiar trick that language plays on us. Add an adjective to a noun and you can destroy ...
Age of Systematic Thinking
Veblen’s Dress Code: Why the More Important You Are, the Less You Have to Dress Like It
There is a peculiar inversion happening in the halls of power, and it has been hiding in plain sight for ...
The Engineer vs. The MBA: The Eternal War Between Making Things and Making Money
Over a century ago, a strange, socially awkward economist from rural town noticed something that most people still refuse to ...
Ugly Fashion is a Status Symbol: Why the Rich Choose to Look “Bad”
There is a particular kind of confusion that hits you in a luxury department store. You pick up a jacket ...
The Role of the Banker: Comte’s Ideal Financial System
Most people who have heard of Auguste Comte know him as the father of sociology, the man who coined the ...
Why We Value “Hard Work” (Even When It Is Pointless)
There is a particular kind of pride people take in being busy. Not productive. Not effective. Just busy. The kind ...
The Unpaid Moral Worker: Comte’s Justification for Excluding Women from Public Life
Auguste Comte is often remembered as the father of sociology, the man who wanted to turn the study of human ...
Why the Greatest Threat to Democracy Is Not Dictators, But Bureaucrats
We have been trained to fear the strongman. The dictator in military dress, the demagogue at the podium, the authoritarian ...
Why Karl Marx Would Call Your “Dream Job” a Nightmare
There is a particular kind of modern sermon that gets preached in graduation speeches, LinkedIn posts, and motivational podcasts. It ...
Renaissance
Why Most “Mindfulness” Is Useless (According to Musashi)
There is a man who killed his first opponent at thirteen. He fought over sixty duels and never lost a …
How to Use Your Enemy’s Strength Against Them
Most people misunderstand strength. They think the goal is to become stronger than whatever stands in ...
The Tech War Is a Philosophy War: Bacon vs. Everyone Else
There is a man who died in 1626 from stuffing a chicken with snow. He was ...
Enlightenment
Your Brand is a Battlefield: Applying “On War” to the Attention Economy
Carl von Clausewitz died in 1831. He never saw a Facebook ad, never scrolled through TikTok, never had his morning …
Why You Should Stop Trying to Improve Your Weaknesses
There is a particular kind of moral comfort in working on what you are bad at. ...
Why Conspiracy Theories Are the Ultimate Failure of Enlightenment
In 1784, Immanuel Kant wrote a short essay that would become one of the most quoted ...
The Iron Law of Wages: Why Your Boss Actually Cannot Pay You More According to David Ricardo
You work hard. You show up on time, hit your targets, maybe even skip lunch. And ...
When Tariffs Win: The Tiny Exception Smith Made for National Security
Adam Smith is the patron saint of free trade. His name gets dropped in every debate ...
Classical Thinking
AristotleClassical
Aristotle for Entrepreneurs: Building a Business on Practical Wisdom
Most business advice sounds like it was generated by an algorithm trained on LinkedIn posts. Move fast and break things. ...
ClassicalCulture
How to Accept Criticism Like a Philosopher, Not a Child: Lessons from Marcus Aurelius
Someone tells you your work is not good enough. Your first instinct is not to consider whether they might be ...
CiceroClassical
Cicero’s Guide to Surviving a Toxic Workplace (or a Dying Republic)
Marcus Tullius Cicero did not have a LinkedIn profile. He did not attend leadership seminars. He never posted an inspirational ...
ClassicalEconomics
Thucydides for CEOs: The High Cost of Corporate Hubris
There is a book written 2,400 years ago that most business leaders have never read. It is not about business. ...
CiceroClassical
Cicero’s 5 Rules for Winning an Argument Without Losing Your Soul
Two thousand years before Twitter threads and TED talks, a Roman lawyer figured out something most of us still have ...