How Feedback Loops Work
Reinforcing loops amplify changesviral growth and panic spirals. Balancing loops stabilize systems through homeostasis and resistance.
June 2025
How Incentives Shape Outcomes
Incentives direct attention and effort toward rewarded behaviors. They signal importance and create competition.
How Biases Are Formed
Pattern recognition overgeneralizes from few examples to broad rules. Cultural learning transmits biases. Emotions attach value creating preferences.
How Culture Evolves Over Time
Culture evolves through transmission from parents, innovation when someone tries new behavior, and selection when successful behaviors spread.
How Complex Systems Adapt
Variation creates diversity. Selection preserves what works and eliminates failures. Retention passes successful adaptations forward over time.
How Learning Happens in the Brain
Brain learning: neurons fire together during experience, synapses strengthen with repetition through long-term potentiation, wiring pathways...
How Decision Frameworks Actually Work
Frameworks reduce bias by structuring choices. They make criteria explicit. Consistency improves through repeatable processes despite limitations.
How Technology Adoption Works
Technology adoption curve: innovators 2.5%, early adopters 13.5%, early majority 34%, late majority 34%, laggards 16% follow predictable patterns.
How Organizations Make Decisions
Formal hierarchies route decisions upward. Informal influence involves politics and relationships.
How Metrics Influence Behavior
Metrics create visibility making performance transparent. Accountability follows visibility.
January 2023
How Algorithms Work: A Plain-English Explanation
Algorithms explained in plain English: what they are, how sorting and search algorithms work, Big O notation simplified, recommendation systems,...