The logic of pre-emption is superficially compelling. If you know what someone will do — or believe you know, with sufficient confidence — acting before the harm occurs seems obviously preferable to acting after it….
Posts tagged Systems
Judged by Prediction
The question this pillar addresses is specific: what happens when a system decides who you are — or what you will do — before the evidence of your life has come in? This is not…
The Long Game
Most of the pressures you work under are built for the short term. Deadlines, quarterly numbers, immediate accountability — the architecture of most organisations rewards the decision that looks good now over the decision that…
How Institutions Fall
The satisfying story of institutional failure has a villain — someone who knew, who chose, who can be named and removed. The accurate story rarely does. Institutions mostly fail the way the firm in Margin…