5th Anniversary Post
Five years ago, as part of a deliberate exercise in working through a decades long writer’s block, I wrote a post titled Limnos, and reflections on a life lived “dancing in between” dated 21.3.2021. For reasons far too complex to unpack here, I need to reflect on a life lived “dancing in between” and I […]
How China accelerated the pace of technological innovation
It is purely by accident that I stumbled on Justin Yifu Lin‘s 1995 article “The Needham Puzzle: Why the Industrial Revolution Did Not Originate in China” this morning and my thinking on the nature and function of the processes of innovation has been significantly elevated. A short quote encapsulates Lin’s hypothesis (1995:275-276) sets the context […]
DeepSeek: A textbook case of Christensen’s disruptive innovation
On the 10th of January 2025, a hedge fund released an artificial intelligence (AI) app into the wild. By the 27th, the world responded to DeepSeek, as the AI is known, by crashing the value of AI related stocks, creating losses totaling more than a trillion dollars. Its very existence in the market has called […]
Democratizing diagnostics by design
I began developing my approach for diagnostic study of unstructured problem spaces in complex adaptive human systems in earnest more than a decade ago. The roots of my interest in this work, however, go back more than 35 years to my final year of engineering back in Bangalore (Bengaluru). It strikes me, on reflection, […]
Navigating epistemological complexity and plurality
The need to develop competences for navigating epistemological complexity and plurality is one that has remained overlooked within Euro-Western academy. Yet this epistemic task is recognized as a daily practice of lived experience among the majority of non-Westerners and Indigenous Peoples who are themselves educated in modern western science (Reano 2020; Nakata 2007; Yunkaporta 2019; […]
Multidimensional Climate Justice Must Recognize ALL Types of Knowledge Holders
What is interesting in this diagram from Kivimaa et al. (2021:7) from the Finnish Climate Change panel, is the missing component of Indigenous, local, and traditional knowledge from the sphere of Recognition Justice. Why it is interesting is because the authors cite Tribaldos & Kortetmäki (2022) among their references for the concept of justice, who […]
Paradigm change or changing paradigms?
There is yet one leverage point that is even higher than changing a paradigm. That is to keep oneself unattached in the arena of paradigms, to stay flexible, to realize that no paradigm is “true,” that every one, including the one that sweetly shapes your own worldview, is a tremendously limited understanding of an immense […]
Transformative Learning: 2019-2024
The past year has kept me silent as I focused on constructing my thesis after years of scholarship. Now, we wait to hear what, if anything, will be accepted for publication after peer review. A hiatus after more than 15 months of reading and writing and rewriting. Is it any wonder that little energy remained […]
Diagnosis Case Study: Alignment of Intent, Actions, and Outcomes for Public Sector ROI
The illustrations and descriptions in this internal diagnostic service case study rely on previously completed work (September to December 2012) for the complex adaptive system that is the Dutch government’s public-private partnerships funding program for sustainable agricultural value chain development. Two ministries are involved – Foreign Affairs and Economy (which includes Agriculture and Food Security). […]
Diagnostics: Preparedness for Resilience to Shocks
Resilience is a static state of being, preparedness is the alert verb that underpins that state of readiness. The world is changing and fast. According to a blogpost from the European Investment Bank (EIB), preparedness is key to transformation in a socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable manner. One of their three principles for boosting their […]
