Here is a selection of my recent tweets:

I think systems do not exist to the same degree that you don’t hear the tree fall in the forest if you are not there. You create/construct the conceptual model when you have the need to.

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) July 2, 2019

Recursive Kaizen – The point of doing kaizen is to get better at doing kaizen. #kaizen #recursivekaizen

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) July 6, 2019

You need least number of assumptions when you are close to the source (genba). #lean

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) July 5, 2019

You can learn things only in terms of things you already know. Explore outside your sandbox more.

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) July 4, 2019

The world is just too complex for us to carry only one toolbox around. #complexity

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) July 4, 2019

Your objectivity is a sum of all your subjectivities. (Paraphrasing Ackoff) #cybernetics #2ndOrderCybernetics

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) July 3, 2019

In many regards, Ashby’s “black box” led to 2nd Order Cybernetics. The need to explain how things worked was replaced by how things behaved. #cybernetics

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) July 3, 2019

Ala Altshuller, the ideal solution is no solution – eliminate the conditions needing the solution. #ux

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) June 23, 2019

Another way to state the Correspondence Principle- your new solution should be capable of meeting all the requirements met by the old solution and more. #complexity

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) June 23, 2019

Your brain is your most overcompensating organ of your body. #SundayThoughts

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) June 16, 2019

A poka yoke device is a zero entropy device. The “message” it transmits should be fixed and constant, thus reducing the information processing load and time. #lean #entropy

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) June 15, 2019

The goal of a system is a message of zero entropy (Ashby). This is needed for regulation and homeostasis. #cybernetics

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) June 15, 2019

Causation is a sufficient condition for correlation. Correlation is a necessary condition for causation. And correlation does not imply causation. #TuesdayThoughts

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) June 11, 2019

An illegitimate question is one for which the answer is known. A legitimate question is one for which the answer is NOT known. (Hein von Foerster) #complexity #cybernetics

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) June 9, 2019