Three Experiences
Each interactive maps to a part of the book's argument. Play them in order or start anywhere.
The Deskilling Loop
Run an institution. Choose between judgment and rules. Watch what happens to your capacity.
Part One: The MachineRisk vs. Uncertainty
Can you tell the difference between calculable risk and genuine uncertainty? LTCM's Nobel laureates couldn't.
Part Two: The EpistemologyThe Two Purposes
Build an institution with foundation and scaffolding. See what happens when you only build one.
Part Three: RecoveryThe Paradigm Case
The Boeing 737 MAX killed 346 people. The compliance documentation was immaculate. The aircraft was perfectly legal and fundamentally lethal. The institution was judgment-proof in both senses.
Boeing designed an aircraft that did not require pilot judgment in the relevant flight regime. The pilots never practiced compensating for the pitch characteristics. They never developed the embodied, habituated skill — what Aristotle would have called hexis — that would have made manual recovery possible. The automation was not incidental. It was the architecture.