Library
The library
The DFS papers, free to read online in full. More follow as they are released.
Papers
When the Organisation Is the Trap
What a Precise Definition of Hierarchical Decision-Making Reveals About the Psychological Harm It Produces
Where choices bind people by position and nobody has to explain them, people cannot act on what they perceive or be heard about it. Add an ordinary job, with outcomes they answer for but cannot influence and a cost of leaving that grows every year, and these are the conditions Judith Herman identified as the mechanism of psychological trauma.
Readings
DFS read alongside other frameworks and research: Lean at Toyota, Bayer’s Dynamic Shared Ownership, and Klein and Kahneman on intuitive expertise. These appear first on Substack and come here as the library grows.