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Nationcraft

Analyzing a nation and the best way to improve it via Yu-kai Chou's Nationcraft Framework.

Nationcraft·52 min

Kazakhstan's 2026 Constitution reads as institutional reform; the V-vector says continuity. Five rejected packets and three that fit…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·37 min

Argentina's V14=8 + V15=8 endowment is trapped by V16=3 capital famine and V10=4 partisanship. Run Milei's reform packets…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·32 min

Nationcraft V-vector reading of the Marcos-Duterte impeachment crisis: why V1+V2+V10+V13 lock the Philippines into the Dynasty Trap, and…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·46 min

A Nationcraft analysis of Iran's 2026 crisis: 18 nation variables, the Coercion Spiral, and which reform playbooks fit…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·41 min

Cuba holds the strongest reform lever in the Caribbean and a doctrine that forbids pulling it. A Nationcraft…

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·37 min

A Nationcraft analysis of Somalia's 2026 constitutional crisis: the Borrowed-Mandate Trap and which reform playbooks actually fit.

Yu-kai Chou

Nationcraft·29 min

Ghana just exited its IMF programme ahead of schedule, for roughly the seventeenth time. A Nationcraft 18-variable read…

Yu-kai Chou