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  • Five Notes on Human Behaviour

    Where to start with a series about control, scarcity, change and the strange ways people affect the environments around them I didn’t really set out to… →

  • Social Gravity

    This article is part of an ongoing series on behavioural psychology, exploring personality, scarcity, social dynamics and the ways our environments shape behaviour. What abundance looks… →

  • Punctuated Change

    This article is part of an ongoing series on behavioural psychology, exploring personality, scarcity, social dynamics and the ways our environments shape behaviour. Why deep psychological… →

  • The Ecology of Scarcity

    This article is part of an ongoing series on behavioural psychology, exploring personality, scarcity, social dynamics and the ways our environments shape behaviour. How scarcity teaches… →

  • The Parasite and the Host

    This article is part of an ongoing series on behavioural psychology, exploring personality, scarcity, social dynamics and the ways our environments shape behaviour. Why narcissistic relationships… →

  • Hiding in Plain Sight

    This article is part of an ongoing series on behavioural psychology, exploring personality, scarcity, social dynamics and the ways our environments shape behaviour. Or how narcissistic… →

  • The Power of Stories, Part Three: What Happens Next

    Who writes Britain’s next story? The final part of The Power of Stories. →

  • The Power of Stories, Part Two: The Pattern

    We do not elect governments. We elect stories. Part Two of The Power of Stories: the pattern, decade by decade. →

  • The Power of Stories, Part One: Behind the Glass

    Why nations rise and fall on narrative, and how a story saved my life. Part One of three. →

  • Sunk Cost Bias

    Series: Cognitive Biases Sunk cost bias is one of the easiest traps to fall into because it feels like a virtue. It sounds like commitment. It… →

  • Action Bias

    Series: Cognitive Biases Action bias is what happens when momentum becomes a proxy for competence. People feel useful. Leaders feel decisive. The team feels like it’s… →

  • The Danger of Cognitive Bias

    Series: Cognitive Biases The Danger of Cognitive Bias (this post) Action Bias Sunk Cost Bias I used to think the hardest part of building games was… →