About WhyItBreaks

WhyItBreaks explains why systems, businesses, platforms, and organizations fail to work the way people expect them to.

Most things don’t break because of incompetence or bad intentions. They break because incentives misalign, complexity accumulates, and systems evolve in directions no one fully controls. This site exists to explain those dynamics in plain language.

The focus is not on advice, prediction, or ideology. The focus is on outcomes—what actually happens over time, and why those outcomes repeat across industries, technologies, and institutions.

WhyItBreaks publishes explanatory analysis intended for a general audience. The goal is clarity, not expertise signaling; understanding, not instruction.