iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandb.wsocial.eu · 08/10/2026

It's always a delight to discover something new about oneself! Recently discovered that my trusty coffee weighing scale of many years is actually Scandinavian! This old flea market find from years ago is in fact a Mått-vågen Gullan, a classic mid century retro Swedish kitchen tool from the 50s.

ROK Manual espresso and grinder, Mått-vågen Gullan weighing scale

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandb.wsocial.eu · 07/10/2026

In Denmark, the cats have already read the herding guidelines. A fascinating read. In Danish universities at least, compliance is presupposed rather than won through persuasion. No comment on whether I infer CBS is in the Danish sample :)

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandb.wsocial.eu · 06/10/2026

This is cool, and I wish them well. Notably, DAWO already runs on French and German components. Digital sovereignty is a shared European stack that's reliable enough for governments to run on. www.techspot.com/news/114018-... (More in Dutch at: tweakers.net/reviews/1533...)

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The Netherlands is building its own Linux OS to break free from Microsoft

The Dutch government is trying to solve its digital sovereignty problem with its own Linux operating system. A local source recently highlighted the development efforts being poured...

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandb.wsocial.eu · 05/10/2026

A beautifully presented article, and the story of many organizations: the 'lower decks,' through sheer determination, absorb the incompetence and/or malfeasance at the top. The top takes the credit or dodges blame. If only our institutions didn't reward mismanagement so reliably. 1/2

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandb.wsocial.eu · 04/10/2026

Good but flawed set of alternatives; they often exist in isolation, without a broader ecosystem of tech, teachers, & habits. A fine start to diversifying your digital footprint. The more emancipatory move is away from Big Tech, toward a blend of open source/community-maintained tools.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandb.wsocial.eu · 29/09/2026

Much of what we do in organizations is discretionary and relational, and never makes it into formal digital traces. When we try to automate the version of the organization we know from the traces, we miss an invisible glue, perceived only in its absence.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandb.wsocial.eu · 28/09/2026

A small milestone: I just accepted my 10th journal review of the year (not counting 14 conference reviews) Peer review is one of the pleasures of the job. It is also my one indulgence in paper: I print every manuscript, and choosing the fountain pen and ink for it has become a small ritual. 1/3

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New home, new platform. I'm going to try EU-based wsocial for a little while, posting from @anandb.wsocial.eu It's part of the AT protocol, so I'll be able to follow you bsky-ers from there. See you around! wsocial.eu/profile/anan...

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W — Trust your feed

We believe in the need for a global, trusted social media platform owned, run, and hosted in Europe. W is built on verified human users, transparency, privacy, and free speech.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The office of a tenure track assistant professor, with my name by the door. Something I have dreamed of, since I dont know, the early-mid 2000s maybe. And now it exists. Feels good. Havent quite made my mad (social) scientist mess yet, but I'll get there.

My office in the department of digitalization, copenhagen business school

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This is likely some form of selection/confirmation bias, but I’m hearing a disproportionate number of border horror stories from people attending the Academy of Management conference in Philly this year. Makes me sad to think that AOM is sullied like this. Oh well, to next year in Vienna.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Beyond the amorphous AI blob. Attempting to sense-make by sense-giving. I drafted a conceptual architecture of generative AI for a lecture by Samer, highlighting its various components beyond the core transformer/LLM. blog.anandb.net/2026/06/beyo...

a conceptual architecture of generative AI, highlighting typical components beyond the core transformer/large language model

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

"The data-ness of knowing from qualitative fieldwork" Some thoughts on producing qualitative data, in prep for my last in-person session of BricoLab before I depart for EU. blog.anandb.net/2026/05/the-...

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The data-ness of knowing from qualitative fieldwork

I've been asked to offer some thoughts on fieldwork and data collection at a BricoLab meeting tomorrow, thought I could use this space to ...

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Submitted it. That's PhD #2 all done. Wow. Huh.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I was a bit resentful, I’m ashamed to admit, towards folks for whom attending AOM in Philly is a not a source of anxiety or worry in any way. I have papers, a fun pdw, even my very first award. But I’ll probably end up sitting this one out. Bitter sweet. To next year in Vienna.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Who the hell is Chau Nguyen and must he forever plague my linkedin notifications?

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Oh hey I'm a doctor doctor*! Looking forward to what comes next, as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Digitalization at the Copenhagen Business School! *Only in Germany, and only if I'm in a play dramatizing an Alexander McCall Smith novel.

Me, Anand, at the end of my dissertation defence, with my supervisor Prof. Samer Faraj

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Found on LinkedIn. What fresh hell is this.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Yet another cycle of market manipulation. It is art of the deal, we just got the beneficiaries wrong.

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

A few people have asked for the syllabus from my grad seminar on Generative AI for social science -- just posted it here: statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/03/10/n...

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

New course on generative AI for behavioral science | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Janteloven might be my favourite word/concept I've learned in a while.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Its also utterly fraudlent. A review by an LLM fined tuned by scraping published texts is in no way comparable to having the original author review the paper, not cognitively, not processually, no aesthetically.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Some people peaked in high school. Now they're looking to impress high schoolers to relive their glory days.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Great resource, thanks! I wonder if you might consider expanding scope to Academy of Management divisions like @aom-tim.bsky.social , @aomstr.bsky.social , and @aom-omt.bsky.social , as well as publishers like @journals.sagepub.com

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

So Copenhagen looks like it could be fun.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

"Private equity ownership structurally diffuses moral responsibility for organizational decision making," he said, looking at nothing in particular.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Boopgate is the most Canadian thing ever. Erstwhile peaceful people weirdly aggresive when on ice.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Using an LLM-based app to do qualitative research is like using an RPG when you needed a scalpel. Its imprecise, and an unconscionable waste. For sampling, processing, summarizing, or surfacing themes, there are ALWAYS computationally lighter approaches than using a RAM guzzling behemoth.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

A small statement of principle: AI augmentation should not be seen as a path to excellence. Excellence, rather, should be a pre-condition for AI augmentation. In knowledge intensive work, this is how we preserve rigor and reflexivity. Thank for coming to my TED talk.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

As you plan for the 2026 conference circuit, know that Calgary is a) gorgeous in May, and b) a short drive from Banff. Hint hint. Academics on BlueSky, contribute to Blue Sky Thinking at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada conference. Qual/Tech folks: the TIM division beckons

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Reflecting on recent experience with public sector bureaucrats and my latest field study: Discretion is anathema to automation, even the fancy “AI” version. In other words, situated judgement is very costly to encode. Safe: People who can productively bend the rules, and be recognized for it.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Why is it that the most fun part of the PhD (writing the monograph) happens at the same time as the least fun part (applying for a job)? One of life's little ironies.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Based on my preliminary understanding of internet culture, there’s basically no way to say two words and not refer to Benedict Cumberbatch. Pneumatic Cauliflower.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I had similar thoughts when social media was emerging. Here is a doing that is being done at a massive social scale and there’s an essential quality check component that is missing.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

This has implications for both the technical correctness and the aesthetic qualities of what is generated.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Many (most?) genAI users cannot effectively evaluate what they have generated. It depends on the user and the task. But a good chunk of all genAl tasks are sufficiently specific to require expert or esoteric knowledge to evaluate.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

“Did it do a good job?” The chatGPT (or equivalent) user who can answer that question, can do the job without chatGPT.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

A cautionary tale about genAI sycophancy. Treat it like a hotshot analyst. Especially one that produces exactly what you want, in record time. Impressive, no doubt, but requiring considerable oversight and real quality checks.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The AOM 2025 program is out! Happy browsing to those who celebrate. aom2025.eventscribe.net

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2025 AOM 85th Annual Meeting

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I'm curious to see how the annual meeting this year in Copenhagen will unfold. Will Americans show up? Will international scholars in America (who risk not being able to re-enter) do so as well? What about scholars in European universites? For some, Canada (e.g. ASAC) might offer an alternative.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Respectfully disagree. I like negative spaces in storytelling (see Andor S2 for a well-executed example). Not everything needs to be explained "in canon".

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I’m not ashamed to admit that I log out, then look.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Next year, ASAC is going to be held in Calgary, May 22nd-25th 2026. Alberta is gorgeous this time of the year, and Banff is like an hour and a half drive away from Calgary. Hint hint.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Just got an R1 with minor revisions on a qual field study manuscript. I’m sure there are things that feel better than this but I can’t for the life of me imagine what.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Maybe it always was and I never noticed. ASAC gave me major EGOS vibes, and I mean that as huge compliment.

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Anand Bhardwaj @anandwashere.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

A professor on my floor introduced me to her colleague as an “ethnographer of technology” yesterday. Still riding that high.

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