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Systems Analysis

Systems Analysis

Analysis of systems, including process and power, provides predictive certainty.

Meetings as Status Ritual: Why Modern Organizations Spend More Time Talking Than Working

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

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

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

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.

Why Construction Productivity Still Looks Stuck in the 1970s

Why Construction Productivity Still Looks Stuck in the 1970s

Why has construction productivity improved so little despite increased use of managerial tools, using empirical data? Donnelly’s Law shows how data overload, administrative complexity, and limited managerial attention quietly reduce efficiency across the construction industry.

When the Humanities Lost the Public: Dead-End Degrees, Academic Celebrity, and Donnelly's Law

When the Humanities Lost the Public: Dead-End Degrees, Academic Celebrity, and Donnelly's Law

Rising tuition, weak labor-market outcomes, academic celebrity culture, and increasingly speculative public theories combined to erode public trust in the humanities and accelerate their institutional decline.

Authenticity for Sale: Trauma as Content

Authenticity for Sale: Trauma as Content

A long-form systems-analysis essay examining how digital platforms transformed trauma into monetizable content within saturated attention systems.