Let’s begin with a story of sabotage.

At the peak of World War Two, the director of the agency that later became the CIA commissioned a special field manual. In the manual were guidelines for destabilizing communities and commerce. The idea was simple: give the manual to citizens friendly to the Allied forces and wage a war of what the manual described as “simple sabotage.”

Near the end of the manual, there’s a list of actions that interfere with organizations and production.

Things like: making it hard to access work resources by setting up complicated bureaucratic systems, never allowing...