Why Big Ten Athletic Directors Are Becoming CEOs
Big Ten schools increasingly hire athletic directors with CEO-level skills as NIL, revenue sharing, and media economics transform college sports.
Nebraska Football's Real Problem Isn't Talent. It's Organizational Debt.
Nebraska has replaced coaches, quarterbacks, coordinators, and more than a roster's worth of players under Matt Rhule. Why do the same problems keep returning?
Why Modern Couples Feel Emotionally Exhausted All the Time
How smartphones, dating apps, and social media destabilized modern relationships through emotional overload, endless comparison, and the collapse of romantic signal integrity.
Meetings as Status Ritual: Why Modern Organizations Spend More Time Talking Than Working
Why do organizations hold so many meetings? Research on meeting overload, productivity, and Donnelly’s Law explains how calendar bloat turns coordination into performative work.
Congress as Content: How Bipartisan Governance Hides Beneath America’s Political Theater
Most consequential federal laws, including defense budgets, appropriations, and debt-limit agreements, pass with bipartisan support. Political infotainment focuses on symbolic bills that generate outrage but rarely become law.
When Data Becomes a Religion
Donnelly’s Law explains why institutions generate endless reports, dashboards, and analytics while becoming slower and less decisive. The professional managerial class has powerful incentives to treat more data as inherently valuable.
Elite Brands Are for Poor People
Luxury brands do not just sell handbags and watches. They sell the feeling of arrival. A systems-level analysis of how companies like LVMH, Kering, and Richemont turn status anxiety into one of the most profitable business models in modern capitalism.