I have been writing blog posts for over 15 years now. In 2025, I was fortunate to have two of my books published by Cyb3rSyn Labs (cyb3rsynlabs.com), a wonderful community founded by Laksh Raghavan. One of these books was coauthored with my good friend, Venkatesh Krishnamurthy.

Second Order Cybernetics is an anthology that explores how observers shape the systems they observe. The role of the observer is often neglected, but it is a crucial part of sensemaking in general. This anthology tries to address that gap. Readers can explore thought-provoking ideas like understanding understanding, balancing autonomy and control, requisite variety, and viable systems. The essays cover key thinkers like Ross Ashby, Heinz von Foerster, Stafford Beer, and Humberto Maturana. The book was curated from my blog posts, and they are now exclusively available via this book. The posts have been removed from the blog.

Connecting the Dots… takes a different approach to the Toyota Production System. It looks beyond the familiar tools (kanban boards, value stream maps, standardized work) to explore the thinking that created them. The book examines how the principles that shaped TPS in post-war Japan remain powerful for navigating today’s challenges with automation, AI, and organizational change. It is my view that if you want to learn a subject at a deep level, you should try to find the common threads from different domains, and that gives you an additional insight that you would not otherwise have had. That was our inspiration behind the book. Bruce Hamilton, the Toast Kaizen teacher, was kind enough to write the foreword for this book.

Both books are available as a bundle on LeanPub: https://lnkd.in/dUZVxDHn

Purchased separately, they cost $39.98 total, but as a bundle you can get them for $29.99.

Hard copies are also available at Lulu: https://lnkd.in/dV9Fg-BA

I have heard it said that if you are writing, you should write as if you are writing for yourself. Write about things you would want to read. That is exactly what I have tried to do here. I hope you find insights that stay with you, insights that prove formative, and insights worth sharing with others.

Stay Curious and Keep on Learning…