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Human Behaviour

The patterns of decision, identity, and contradiction that shape what people actually do, regardless of what they claim.

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Employment Theatre — an empty office chair spotlit on a grand theatre stage above a ruined auditorium
9 min read

Employment Theatre: When Work Becomes a Performance

Employment Theatre is the condition in which an organisation gradually becomes better at performing work than producing value — one of the earliest structural signals of decline.

Hidden SystemsHuman BehaviorSystems ThinkingRise and DeclineEmployment Theatre
The Three Selves You Carry Every Day — an essay by Ehab Abdelmawla
7 min read

The Three Selves You Carry Every Day

Most people believe they have only one self. The truth is more unsettling: we carry three—and the one making our decisions is not always the one we think.

Human BehaviorPhilosophySystems ThinkingThe Offset Self
The People Who Cannot Leave — featured essay art
5 min read

The People Who Cannot Leave

The deepest test of character may be found not in public virtue, but in how we treat the people closest to us.

Fingerprints in the UnseenHuman BehaviorPhilosophy
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