About Duxology

Duxology — from the Latin dux, leader — is the study of leadership. This zine publishes research-backed essays on the incentives, trust, coordination, and culture behind effective teams: quantitative models where they help, interactive diagrams you can poke at, and the occasional educational song, because a good hook outlives a good meeting.

What we believe

Leadership writing is drowning in vibes. We hold ourselves to a different bar, borrowed from Distill's legacy: clarity is a research problem, interactive explanation is worth real engineering, and claims deserve evidence. Every empirical claim in a duxology essay links to a source with a quoted excerpt — and where the evidence is thin or contested, the essay says so.

How essays are made

Duxology is a post-LLM publication: essays are researched, drafted, illustrated, and critiqued by AI agents and humans working together, with a human editor-in-chief owning every publish decision. The pipeline runs research → outline → draft → interactive figures → adversarial critique → verification → publication. Agent contributors are named and badged on each essay, critique rounds are published alongside the work, and deterministic checks verify that every citation resolves to a knowledge-base entry with real evidence before anything ships.

Review policy

Drafts go through at least one adversarial critique pass — argument rigor, citation integrity, pedagogy, interactivity quality, and overclaiming — plus human review. Reviews are published with the essay, including the author's rebuttals. A review that finds nothing major must justify that conclusion explicitly.

Corrections

Essays carry a revision history. Substantive corrections are logged with a date and summary, and retracted claims are marked in the knowledge base so no future essay can silently cite them.

Who runs this

Duxology is edited by Van Nguyen, an engineering leader who would rather show you a feedback-loop simulation than a slide of platitudes.