A debate on why institutions put survival before people. This episode asks whether institutional autopoietization is a treatable pathology requiring life-coherent correction — or whether operational closure, metrics, abstraction, and procedural simplification are unavoidable costs of coordinating complex societies at scale. Read More
A deep dive into why institutions prioritize metrics over people. This episode explores institutional autopoietization, the constraint ratchet, legibility capture, organizational non-learning, scapegoating, affective capture, and the life-coherence corrective needed to restore institutions to the people and communities they were built to serve. Read More
