Who
David Greene, a Gooding, Idaho resident, held corporate healthcare leadership roles before spending more than a decade advising both private and public leadership teams. He holds degrees in Organizational Psychology and an MBA, with additional focus on economics, financial planning, and civics.
Dave leads discussion-based conversations with high school students, professionals, and community groups. These discussions have taken place in libraries, classrooms, corporate conference rooms, podcast conversations, and occasionally at that big table in the back of the restaurant.
He’s open about not knowing everything and relies on a network of experts - economists, political scientists, and civil rights attorneys - to help test and refine ideas.
More career stuff: LinkedIn Profile
Oh, and he fetches.
Why
Making good decisions has gotten harder.
Schools cover less ground than they once did, and social media rewards speed and certainty over reflection. COVID accelerated both trends, affecting students and adults alike. As a result, many people are left arguing about outcomes without a clear sense of why things turn out the way they do.
Economics - at its core - is about how people make choices under constraints. Those ideas explain a lot about why intentions and results often diverge. Yet they’re rarely taught in a practical, accessible way.
Unraveling Twists exists to help fill that gap.
The focus is on plain language, simple visuals, and everyday examples. No math is required. Understanding how systems work shouldn’t demand years of training - and it doesn’t need to.
Paired with basic civics and history, these tools help people become more thoughtful participants in civic life. What matters most isn’t which side someone takes, but whether they understand why they hold the views they do.
Discussions are evidence-based and grounded in data, logic, and human nature - not politics. The goal isn’t agreement. It’s clearer thinking, better questions, learning from each other, and exploring how reality often differs from the outcomes we expect - or the narratives we hear - sometimes by a wide margin.
What
Unraveling Twists is designed to support better conversations.
The focus isn’t on delivering answers. It’s on making the underlying mechanics easier to see - so people can think more clearly about how the world works.
The real value shows up in discussion. That’s where people can slow down, test assumptions, and work through why outcomes often differ from intentions.
The writing on this site plays a supporting role. It’s not meant to be the final word on a topic. It’s meant to create enough shared ground for a conversation to begin - especially among people who don’t see things the same way.
Across topics, the aim is consistent:
Make trade-offs visible
Surface unintended consequences
Show how incentives and constraints shape behavior
Some topics are short. Others grow over time. That’s intentional. As ideas are used in real conversations, it becomes clearer where more depth helps - and where it doesn’t. This is a working library - shaped by use, refined through discussion, and improved over time.
If you’re looking for how to use these topics in a group setting, visit the How to Use page.