I will be posting soon. Meanwhile, here are selected tweets (cybernetics, purpose of a system, complexity etc.):

Asking questions is more important than getting answers. Stay curious. #FridayThoughts

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) July 19, 2019

1/3 Good complexity is having requisite variety. Bad complexity is having nonessential variety, and lots of it. This may seem to contradict Foerster’s ethical imperative – “Act always so as to increase the number of choices.” #cybernetics

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) July 25, 2019

1/2 One of my favorite examples of culture and context provide meaning is the proverb – a rolling stone gathers no moss. The modern meaning in the West is be active to avoid stagnation. When this got translated to Japanese, the meaning became the opposite. #epistemology

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) July 22, 2019

If Theory is to ontology, then practice is to epistemology.

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) July 20, 2019

Another take on Godel’s incompleteness theorems: “One can only say with a given language what the language permits.” (Maturana’s quote originally not in relation to Godel) #Godel #cybernetics

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) July 20, 2019

Most change management ideas are worded around deterministic phrases. Take Lewis’s model for example (unfreeze-change-refreeze). Mechanistic phrases. We are still holding onto the Newtonian clockwork paradigm. Any change management ideas are heuristics or frameworks at best.

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) July 20, 2019

You know you are self-taught when your revision control for your programs are “new”, “new new”, “really new”, “really really new”…. 🙃

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) July 20, 2019

A “system” must be viewed in terms of its components and the larger “systems” it is part of. This is ontological. It must be understood in terms of the interactions that exist both internally and externally. This is epistemological. Ontology precedes epistemology. #cybernetics

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) July 19, 2019

When you realize that even a fundamental theoretical concept such as probability has more than one distinct interpretation/worldview, it should make you wonder about all the “systems” around you. What is an alternate view of your “system”? #systemsthinking #2ndOrderCybernetics

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) July 17, 2019

1/6 I had an interesting discussion with @SystemsNinja on an organization’s purpose. Here are my thoughts so far on this. #posiwid #cybernetics #systemsthinking #ackoff

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) July 15, 2019

You cannot improve a system all at once. You can only improve a process that in turn makes the system better through its interactions with other processes. The challenge lies in knowing which process to improve(TOC). This applies for the ordered domain. #complexity

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) July 14, 2019

Be weary of the man who has not made any mistake. It just means that he is good at deflecting blame.

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) July 14, 2019

Are we always better at solving other people’s problems? #TuesdayThoughts

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) July 9, 2019

In a complex system, when you push, you get pushed back harder by the system. You cannot make a system go faster. You can only create conditions where it is attractive for a system to behave in a certain manner.

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) July 11, 2019

Structurally open, operationally closed! A Study of “Organizational Closure” and Autopoiesis. #cybernetics #autopoiesis https://t.co/OgfbUrLAbx

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) July 23, 2019

Autopoiesis provides clarity when one thinks about purpose and autonomy of a system. It also explains why the mechanistic ideas of Management is lacking in managing complexity. Structurally open & Operationally closed. #complexity #cybernetics #systems https://t.co/OgfbUrLAbx

— Harish Jose (@harish_josev) July 24, 2019

Always keep on learning…