Who
Dave 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.
How Used
Unraveling Twists is used to support discussion and shared thinking.
The real work happens in conversations - where people can slow down, look at how things actually work, and talk through why outcomes so often surprise us.
The writing that appears on this site serves a different role. It’s starting material, not a conclusion.
Each topic is meant to:
Surface a tension, trade-off, or unintended consequence
Provide enough shared context to make discussion useful
Give people a common place to begin, even when they disagree
Some topics stay short. Others may grow into longer write-ups. That evolution is intentional. As ideas get used in real conversations, it becomes clearer where more background helps - and where it doesn’t.
The goal isn’t to deliver answers or push a particular policy. It’s to make the underlying mechanics easier to see, so conversations can move past slogans and focus on how incentives and constraints shape what actually happens.
Unraveling Twists will continue to evolve based on where those conversations lead.