Make Whoever Runs a Harmful System Post a Bond
Michigan's MiDAS flagged tens of thousands of claimants for fraud and was wrong in 93 percent of the cases a review examined.
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Writing on firms, shareholder logic, managerial control, and the costs a company externalizes to keep its numbers clean. 15 essays in this theme.
Writing on firms, shareholder logic, managerial control, and the costs a company externalizes to keep its numbers clean.
15 essays · the pattern that runs through most of them is Burden
Blameless Postmortems Should Cover Customers Too
Organizations have learned not to blame their own people for failures the system produced.
What Happens to the Web When AI Agents Do the Clicking
Amazon's cancellation maze worked because people get tired.
Ask Any Ethics Board What It Has Stopped
Oversight that performs responsibility without the power to force a sacrifice.
Assume the People in Charge Already Know
The comforting fiction behind most reform is that the machine is cruel because it is blind.
Career Ladders Are Just Filters
Careers do not reward the best work; they filter for whoever survives the rungs.
The Stock Market Hates a Cure
Ten years ago, Gilead Sciences did what modern medicine says it exists to do: it cured a disease.
Quiet Is Not Peace
Silence at home, at work, and in politics can pass for peace while grievances build up like unpaid debt, and the skipped conversation returns later as a bigger conflict.
I Hope You Stop Letting Work Spend You
I hope you count the unpaid fixes as labor, read defaults as choices someone made, and work where leaving is as easy as joining.
Pretending Everything Is Fine Is Half the Job
Organizations reward whoever softens the bad news, and the job falls to people already trained to self-filter: women, people of color, autistic and first-generation staff.
Catastrophe Bonds: How Wall Street Prices Our Disasters
Catastrophe bonds pay out only when a disaster crosses a preset threshold.
What We Built, and Refused to Become
We ended our company before it could become the thing we never intended.
Collapse Capitalism: How Investors Buy the Disaster
After a hurricane, a foreclosure wave or a pandemic, buyers pick up distressed homes at a discount while displaced families wait for relief that will pay the new landlords.
Big Tech Governs a Territory With No Borders
Amazon, Google and Apple set rules for people who never agreed to be governed by them.
Neurodiversity Washing
Selling the look of inclusion while keeping the barriers
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