(3.5 ★) The Dark Pattern is a meta-analysis of corporate scandals and wrongdoing, focusing on why and how the ostensibly otherwise decent people involved could do the things they did. The book is a sandwich of case studies of different corporations, surrounded by the framework with which the authors analyze them. The case studies focus, for the most part, on some of the more notable corporate scandals — Enron, Theranos, Wells Fargo, Boeing, etc. I felt that especially for those that have full books already written about them, the case study analysis in this book felt a little flat. I think that the chapters about the framework of analysis were probably the strongest in the book. Digging into the actual framework, I think that while it is useful, the authors’ application of it goes a step too far at times. It is one thing to say that there were contributing and mitigating factors to the Theranos scandal, and another entirely to say that there were no bad apples present.