10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Jacinda Ardern
Jacinda Ardern took a near-lost election and a job at 37, then chose exactly when to put it…
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IMB Model (Fisher): S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
The most striking thing about Jeffrey and Will Fisher’s 1992 paper is what it refuses to do. It…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: George R. R. Martin
Hollywood kept cutting George R. R. Martin's scripts to fit the budget. So he built a world no…
Nationcraft Analysis: Somalia Mandate Trap 2026
A Nationcraft analysis of Somalia's 2026 constitutional crisis: the Borrowed-Mandate Trap and which reform playbooks actually fit.
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Socrates
Plato's Apology, the Symposium, and the trial of 399 BCE — Socrates' life as a 10K HP build:…
Behavioral Ethics: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
In 2003, two researchers at Harvard and Notre Dame did something the field of ethics had largely refused…
Precaution Adoption: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
In 1988, a Rutgers psychologist named Neil Weinstein published a paper that quietly broke one of the most…