Harish Jose
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Perhaps the most profound insight from informational closure in Cybernetics is that more information is not going to change behavior. The success of misinformation today is not based on information “purity” but on our ability to make distinctions. More to come… #CyberneticsConstructivism
The cybernetic principle of recursion seems to indicate diminishing returns on AI. We will hit a wall as the negotiable space is shrinking. #AI #Cybernetics #Cyb3rsyn harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/o...
On Diversity as a Cybernetic Necessity:
In today’s post, I want to explore an idea that often gets framed in moral terms but is actually a cybernetic imperative: the necessity of diversity for viable systems. Whether we are talking…
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From my next post in the works: 7.1 The description cannot step outside the language that gives it form. 7.2 The world does not require these distinctions. We do. …. 7.6 Our knowledge is therefore never of things-in-themselves, only of the distinctions we impose. #CyberneticConstructivism
When choices are removed, a different logic takes hold. A decision made under constraint, with no alternatives available, becomes irreversible. #Cybernetics harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/m...
Minimizing Harm, Maximizing Humanity:
In today’s post, I am looking at a question that is rarely asked in management. What if the most responsible course of action is not to maximize benefit, but to minimize harm? In decision the…
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Bundle Deal for Second Order Cybernetics and Connecting the Dots… In 2025, I was fortunate to have two of my books published. leanpub.com/b/systemsfor... More here - harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/b... #Cybernetics #Lean #Toyota
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Laksh Raghavan@laraghavan.bsky.social · 10mo agoBook Launch 🚀 and exclusive Podcast: Connecting the Dots... by @harishjose.bsky.social and @kriswhen.bsky.social! I’m super excited to announce the publication of the book co-authored by Harish Jose and Venkatesh Krishnamurthy!
Spencer Brown’s Reentry is a great way to look for cognitive blind spots.
You don’t have purpose other than to create a purpose for you. #Existentialism
Instead of asking "how do we get people to serve the organization's purpose," we need to ask "how do we create conditions where each person's independent viability contributes to emerging patterns that enhance collective viability?" #Recursion #CyberneticLeadership
When we come to value epistemic humility, we see that we do not see what we do not see. #CyberneticConstructivism Hat tip to HvF.
seductive appeal of ontological frameworks lies in their promise of certainty. They offer false comfort of believing we can transcend our limitations as observers & access reality directly. this promise is precisely what makes them epistemologically arrogant #EpistemicHumility vs #EpistemicArrogance
My latest venture with my good friend Venky. Published by another good friend @laraghavan.bsky.social Connecting the Dots… Reflections on the Toyota Production System I have found that connecting dots across fields deepens our understanding of the subject at hand. #TPS #RespectForHumanity
New Book: Connecting the Dots… Reflections on The Toyota Production System – Jose and Krishnamurthy (2025) stream.syscoi.com/2025/08/03/n...
New Book: Connecting the Dots… Reflections on The Toyota Production System – Jose and Krishnamurthy (2025)
Guest Post by Harish Jose and Venky + Exclusive Podcast Laksh RaghavanAugust 03, 2025 I’m super excited to announce the details of an upcoming book co-authored by Harish Jose and Ven…
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The future is invented every second. Invent a better one- Hari Seldon (Foundation TV series)
It is not the world that informs us. It is we who, through our distinctions, in-form the world. #CyberneticConstructivism
My latest post - The -isms of a Man Who Rejected -isms: You are the Copernican revolution. The observer is not the center of the universe, but every observation necessarily has them at its center. #HvF #CyberneticConstructivism harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/t...
The -isms of a Man Who Rejected -isms:
In today’s post, I am exploring one of the most fascinating aspects of Heinz von Foerster’s work: his complete rejection of philosophical labels and -isms. Von Foerster, the Austrian-Am…
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Third in the series… Heidegger, Systems Thinking, and Cybernetics #NLM #Heidegger #Cybernetics youtube.com/watch?v=fYIs...
Heidegger, Systems Thinking, and Cybernetics
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Checking out NLM for my posts. They did a fine job. Check this out - Arbitrariness of Objectivism, A Deep Dive #CyberneticConstructivism #Pluralism youtu.be/Q2X0zOIumQQ?...
The Arbitrariness of Objectivism
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harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/t... This is the illusion of completeness in the right thing, the comforting belief that something can be fully correct. It persists because thought gives us a sense of closure that reality cannot guarantee. #CyberneticConstructivism #HvF
The Right Thing and the Right Reason:
In today’s post, I am exploring the notion of “doing the right thing.” We encounter this expectation everywhere in workplaces, personal relationships, and civic life. The phrase a…
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We call gravity a law, yet apples fell long before Newton wrote his equations. The law is Newton’s construct, not the apple’s. Laws are abstractions we create to make sense of patterns. They are, dare I say, useful ‘fictions’ that help us navigate complexity.
My latest post - A Good Enough Post Engaging with complexity means getting better at being good enough, continuously. harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2025/07/18/a...
A Good Enough Post:
In today’s post, I am exploring the notion that viability depends on our capacity for action, and that this capacity may not entirely rely on having a perfect grasp of “Truth.” This possibility, dr…
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1/2 From evolution, we see that Survival does not require absolute truth. It requires adequacy. Nervous systems evolved to attenuate complexity, not to copy it. #CyberneticConstructivism
1/4 A theme I see in mainstream management is what I call “information based leadership.” This is the belief that if clearer information is provided, it will lead to the desired outcome. #Cybernetics
1/3 #CyberneticConstructivism begins with an observation that is both simple and profound. The world contains an immense amount of variety, far more than any organism can manage. To regulate a system, a regulator must have at least as much variety as the system it controls.
1/2 #Cybernetic #constructivism does not deny that brains exhibit emergent complexity or predictive behavior. It questions whether accuracy should be the goal. If the world’s variety cannot be fully captured, then perfect accuracy is both impossible and unnecessary.