Puzzles and Mysteries.

I was educated to solve puzzles.

That with enough expertise, evidence and tools, Economics was a puzzle to be solved if I tried hard enough.

It took me a while to work out that the problem was that somebody was fixing the rules. It was relatively easy to solve the problems that were set, but the problems that were set had only a passing resemblance to what was happening in the world.

But economics did it's job. It gave me a degree, and a degree gave me a job.

Fast forward several decades, through behavioral economics, neuroscience, psychology and lots of different experiences to the present, and economics still largely defines the world through the lens of its own limitations. A hugely powerful tool, but limited to relatively short term specificity.

Over time, I became more and more interested in those problems that were mysteries more than puzzles. "Wicked problems" that morph and react to whatever action we take. The stuff of myth and quantum mechanics.

The more I got interested and invol…