Patterns
System patterns
Recurring mechanisms you can diagnose across fictional and real organisational settings.
PATTERN / 01Ambiguous
The mission that outlives its founders
A founding objective continues to coordinate decisions after the original context and authority have disappeared.
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The resource bottleneck
Control over a scarce input becomes control over decisions elsewhere in the system.
ExplorePATTERN / 03Dystopian anti-pattern
The organization that manipulates its own data
Reporting is redesigned to protect authority, so the system loses the feedback required to adapt.
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