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Refractions

Refractions is an independent publication that applies analytical prisms from deep thinkers of the past to problems of the present. Each standalone piece will employ a different analytical prism.

Prisms

Top of mind, and all subject to change.

  1. Eric Hobsbawm's periodization understanding ages and transitions
  2. Arnold Toynbee's challenge-and-response civilizational adaptation and decline
  3. Adda Bozeman's cultural pluralism divining a world system through non-Western concepts of order
  4. James Scott's art of not being governed strategies for avoiding institutional capture
  5. James Beniger's control revolution information technology as control infrastructure
  6. Thucydides

Who it's for

Each refraction is written for people working in and around complex systems—whether in the private, public, or non-profit sectors—who seek a new lens for interpreting world events and charting their own path through uncertainty.