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Systems & Incentives

Why smart people do strange things

Goodhart's Law
Charles Goodhart · Paper
Chesterton's Fence
G. K. Chesterton · Essay
Principal–Agent Problem
Michael Jensen & William Meckling · Paper
Cobra Effect
Horst Siebert · Model
Choice Architecture
Richard Thaler · Economics
Sludge
Cass Sunstein · Economics
The French Garden and the English Garden
Will Manidis · Essay
Friendship as Negative ROI
Pankaj (the2ndfloorguy) · X (Twitter) Article