Books by Waydell D. Carvalho
Nonfiction published under the Cinderpoint imprint. Institutional failure, governance collapse, sports systems, and AI risk examined through documented analysis.
How the governing bodies, financial interests, and institutional arrangements that control American soccer created the conditions for persistent underperformance at the highest levels of the sport. The analysis traces fifteen structural filters that narrow the talent pool, restrict mobility, misalign incentives, and ultimately cap what American soccer can produce internationally.
A diagnostic field guide to the thirteen ways AI deployments fail inside competent organizations. The technology works, the people are capable, and the oversight is present on paper. The failure happens in the structure that connects them. Thirteen failure modes, each traced through documented cases from the Dutch childcare-benefits scandal to CrowdStrike's global outage.