The Decision Papers

  • The Decision Papers — The Arrow Trap: When a Correlation Smuggles in a Direction. Banner with arrows caught inside a box trap, drawn in watercolor on aged paper.

    I.28 — The Arrow Trap: When a Correlation Smuggles in a Direction

    “They seem conjoined, but never connected.” — David Hume The room thinks it has found the lever. Two lines on the dashboard have moved together for months with uncanny discipline: X rises, Y rises, again and again. Someone says what everyone is already thinking. So if we push down on X, Y comes down with…

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  • The Decision Papers — Desire: The Force Beneath Utility. Banner with a radiating ink vortex of fine lines pulling toward a hidden center.

    I.15 — Desire: The Force Beneath Utility

    “Desire is the very essence of man.” — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics Picture a standard executive decision meeting. The table is covered in the artifacts of rationality: spreadsheets, risk matrices, projections. To an observer it looks like a laboratory, a group of neutral sensors receiving data and processing it into a logical output. To anyone who…

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