Thinking

Thinking

Much of my work begins with questions about how people make decisions, how environments influence behavior, and how organizations can be designed to function better.

This is where I write those ideas down. Each essay has a permanent address, a date and a category. Ideas from other people are attributed to them.

In progress

These essays are being written. They will be published here when they are finished.

  • The Habitat Before the Habit

    Most of what shapes a life is set before anyone makes a choice. On designing the habitat so the healthier life becomes the easier life.

  • Building Software for an Agentic World

    Software agents will make or nudge more of the decisions people and groups make. What that future asks of the software built now.

  • Reality Outranks Identity

    On being willing to find out that the story you prefer is wrong, and keeping conviction for problems and principles rather than plans.