Stupid Is As Evil Does

You stand at the head of the table. The blueprint on the screen is your masterpiece. Elegant. Coherent. The logic is flawless.

Then, a voice from your data team—let's call her Sarah—speaks up.

"The user data suggests our core assumption is wrong."

A flicker of doubt. A tremor in your certainty.

In this moment, you face a choice:

You explain away the data. You cite the model. You restore order. The project launches, meets silence, and fails. Later, you'll call it a "market timing issue." But the dust of wasted resources and eroded trust has already begun to sift from the ceiling.

You walk away from your perfect map. You say the two most powerful words a leader can utter: "Show me."

You stand in the messy, humiliating, and fertile space between a failed assumption and a new truth. You trade the brittle authority of a cartographer for the resilient authority of an explorer.

This is the difference between a sealed mind and an unsealed mind. It's the difference between intelligence that fortifies your biases, and intelligence that navigates reality.

We live in a Factory that mass-produces certainty. It's easier than ever to be brilliant, coherent, and completely divorced from reality—in our strategies, our relationships, and our politics.

Stupid Is As Evil Does provides the antidote. It's a forensic toolkit for diagnosing and dismantling the sealed logic that leads to catastrophic failure.

The Watchmaker's Empathy: How to open the case of any ideology—including your own—to diagnose the gears of its logic without getting trapped inside.

Bunker vs. Telegraph Office: How to spot the difference between a mind that defends its map to the death, and a mind that updates it with every new signal.

The Factory's Playbook: How the modern attention economy preys on your need for cognitive closure, and how to immunize yourself.

The Integrator's Code: How to build bridges between conflicting worldviews and make your team, your company, and your thinking more resilient.

Leaders & Managers who are tired of post-mortems and want pre-mortems.

Strategists & Innovators who know that the best idea is a dead end if it can't be updated.

Anyone who has ever argued a point long after they knew, deep down, they were wrong.

The dust is always sifting. In your boardroom, your portfolio, your key relationships. It's the quiet friction of a world that refuses to obey your internal logic.

This book is your field manual for feeling that tug—and having the courage to follow it before the ceiling falls in.