Hiring great people is hard. But even harder -- and far less understood -- is the art of great team composition. Most founders evaluate...

It is common nowadays to hear people commonly decry work as "selling your soul" or "the rat race". Much of that felt sense of existential...

Company formation via joint-stock is the core meta-creative process behind industrial society, modernity, the information age, and the...

Motivation   The types of products that teams can make are constrained by the organizational structures those teams take. The C-Corp...

Eugene Wigner famously wrote of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics  in describing the physical world. It seems crazy that a...

Incentives are memetic - social - technical constructs. They exist in a fitness landscape and can evolve. What makes some incentives more...

Our incentive structures, which shape our beliefs, identities, and behaviors, are up to us . The Institution for Mechanism Design is an...

In order to effectively cooperate with others, a crucial prerequisite step is forming shared mutual expectations. The processes we use to...

Mission: Create a list of implementation-ready mechanisms. Previously: Institution for Mechanism Design 21-12-29 Mechanism Design Working...