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Guru Madhavan @bioengineergm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

What keeps a nation free? My latest for @spectrum.ieee.org, feat. JMW Turner: declaring freedom is only the beginning. Engineering it requires the courage to innovate and the discipline to maintain what we build. 👉🏼 spectrum.ieee.org/us-engineere...

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Guru Madhavan @bioengineergm.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

📋The 19th-century guide to running an effective meeting. “Robert’s Rules of Order” turns 150 this year. In the @financialtimes.com, I wrote about what that history says about AI systems now marketed as consensus brokers. #engineering #meetings ➡️ www.ft.com/content/a01d...

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Guru Madhavan @bioengineergm.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

🕵️"Social engineering" got tainted by association with authoritarian regimes and scammers. So we buried it—and the practice carried on under friendlier names. In @spectrum.ieee.org I argue why reclaiming the term matters. We can't contest what we can't see—and name ▶️ spectrum.ieee.org/social-engin...

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Guru Madhavan @bioengineergm.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

My new @financialtimes.com piece on the engineer who scheduled the apocalypse for his own birthday—and what it reveals about the strange psychology of doomsday deadlines, and why they differ from the ones that actually govern our lives. www.ft.com/content/3256... #engineering #systemsthinking

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Guru Madhavan @bioengineergm.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

📦 THINKING INSIDE THE BOX. 📖 This #EngineersWeek, I'm pleased to announce 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗟𝗨𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗫: 𝗘𝗗 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗛 𝗢𝗙 𝗠𝗢𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗡 𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 ( @wwnorton.com, April 26, 2026), drawn from "Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World."

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Guru Madhavan @bioengineergm.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

⚙️ THE BEAUTY OF FRICTION 📰 In my latest for the @financialtimes.com, I explore why GLP-1 and GPT should force us to ask: which kinds of frictions deserve to stay? 🔗Read here (ft.com/content/f9d6...) or 👇🏼

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Guru Madhavan @bioengineergm.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

✈️ Frequent-flyer “miles” don’t measure miles anymore. We still call them that anyway. It’s a telling inconsistency that hints at a larger issue. 🗞️ In my @financialtimes.com (@ftweekend.com) piece, starring Albrecht Dürer, I explore a few things. 🔗 Read here (ft.com/content/5e98...) or⬇️

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Guru Madhavan @bioengineergm.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

The @raeng.org.uk honors the people who advance our profession, and it also honors the equations that have shaped the world. Along one of its walls, these equations show how we make sense of nature and improve life with precision and purpose. Take a moment to look them up. #engineering

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Guru Madhavan @bioengineergm.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

🙏🏼 This Thanksgiving I am grateful to be included in the fellowship of the U.K. Royal Academy of Engineering (@raeng.org.uk), and for its strong partnership with the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Looking forward to the work ahead. #engineering Photos: Rob Lacey.

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Guru Madhavan @bioengineergm.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Explore the AI-Z of Engineering to discover the amazing breadth of #engineering careers, and find out what is in your future. thisisengineering.org.uk/ai-z-of-engi... #NationalEngineeringDay @raeng.org.uk

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Guru Madhavan @bioengineergm.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

🏗️ Who keeps your world running? Honor them. Begin by seeing them. 🌏 In our pursuit of disruption, we often overlook the foundational care that makes progress possible. My new TEDx talk honors this forgotten courage, vital now more than ever. ▶️Watch + share: lnkd.in/enJxAQEP #engineering #care

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Guru Madhavan @bioengineergm.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

A thoughtful leadership exchange and common purpose. The @raeng.org.uk, the @qeprize.bsky.social, and the U.S. National Academy of Engineering united in shared commitment to advance #engineering that improves lives, strengthens the profession, and celebrates the excellence that defines it.

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Guru Madhavan @bioengineergm.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🤖 WHEN AI DIES ⚰️ ✨ In my latest column for the National Academy of Engineering’s Bridge magazine, prompted by the recent events around TikTok, I explore how we’ve built AI into a dazzling yet deficient genius, machines of vast memory but no legacy. 🚨 🔗 Read here: www.nae.edu/340912/Invis...

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Guru Madhavan @bioengineergm.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

💡TECHNOLOGY. What do we really mean when we use that word? ☢️ In a Financial Times column, I argue “technology” now covers everything from nuclear warheads to noise cancelling headphones, stents to social media, and hair dryers to the Hoover Dam. (💲) www.ft.com/content/a48c... (📄) PDF images 👇

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Guru Madhavan @bioengineergm.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

🎧 Fire. Space. Coffee. Disability. Elections. Sanitation. Six conversations. Six dimensions. All engineering. From the everyday to the extraordinary, I’ve had the fortune to explore how #engineering runs through everything—seen and unseen—for the @qeprize.bsky.social podcast “Create the Future.”

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Guru Madhavan @bioengineergm.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

✨ Centuries of dance offer what even our most advanced organizations still chase. 🥁 At the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art's "Delighting Krishna" exhibit, I was drawn to a mid-19th-century painting of garba raas, showing women dancing in a circle with synchronized, alternating claps...

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Guru Madhavan @bioengineergm.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

⚠️ Explanations for failures in designed and evolved systems. 🚫 🔓Read here in @pnasnexus.org : academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... 🔍 @randynesse.bsky.social, Jay Labov, and I compare body and machine vulnerabilities such as design deficiencies, corrupted plans, assembly variations, and trade-offs. ⚖️

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Guru Madhavan @bioengineergm.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

🔄 True #resilience isn’t about bouncing back—it’s about bouncing forward. In my recent #TEDx talk, I challenge what #resilience really means—with help from warships, a pointy-nosed engineer, a childhood memory and a goat-footed god! 🐐 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5r3... #engineering

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Guru Madhavan @bioengineergm.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Bloom brightly and radiate hope, even if only for a season. 🌸

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Guru Madhavan @bioengineergm.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

⏱️Five years ago, as COVID hit, I wrote in @wsj.com that engineering—not just medicine—would steer our recovery. Time bore it out: logistics outran tactics. 📡 Engineers scaled vaccines to billions in record time, fueled remote work, and held supply chains together when borders shut.

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Guru Madhavan @bioengineergm.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

📝 My opinion "Ports, Politics, and Peace: The Engineering of Stability" is out in The Straits Times, Singapore (straitstimes.com/opinion/port...). Paywalled there, but free via the National University of Singapore Asia Research Institute (ari.nus.edu.sg/app-essay-gu...) and in the image below.

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Guru Madhavan @bioengineergm.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

🛕 Revisiting a temple is different from visiting one. The structure doesn’t change, but something else does—the way light falls, the way silence sounds, the way your own presence shifts in relation to it. The same corridors see different feet, the same sanctum absorbs different prayers. #engineering

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Guru Madhavan @bioengineergm.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Thank you to everyone who took the time to read and engage with it, and to Beethoven for his cameo appearance! As the maestro would say: da-da-da-dum! 🎹 🎵🎼

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