Waydell D. Carvalho

Waydell D. Carvalho is the founder of Cinderpoint™. His research examines how complex systems fail under speed, opacity, and scale, with frameworks across AI governance, sports governance, copyright analysis, and the physics of advanced intelligence.

His work appears in IEEE Spectrum, on SSRN, and on Zenodo. The book American Soccer Cartel traces fifteen structural filters behind US underperformance in international soccer. He is the host of the podcast Why Systems Break.