The Biology of Business

Not another business book

Most business books tell stories. A founder succeeded, so here's what they did. A company failed, so avoid their mistakes. These anecdotes are entertaining but unreliable - survivorship bias, unique circumstances, and hindsight make them poor guides for your decisions.

This is different. Biology has spent 3.8 billion years solving every organizational problem you'll ever face: how to grow, compete, cooperate, adapt, scale, and sustain. These aren't metaphors - they're the same fundamental challenges, governed by the same underlying principles.

A decision framework, not a story collection

The Biology of Business maps 6,998 biological mechanisms, organisms, and real company examples into a structured framework across 8 books. Each mechanism comes with the conditions where it applies, the tradeoffs involved, and the patterns that predict when it works or fails.

When you face a strategic question - how to structure incentives, when to centralize vs. decentralize, how to balance growth with stability - you can trace the biological pattern, see how it plays out across species and industries, and make decisions grounded in principles that have been tested across billions of iterations.