Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Perhaps the most profound insight from informational closure in Cybernetics is that more information is not going to change behavior. The success of misinformation today is not based on information “purity” but on our ability to make distinctions. More to come… #CyberneticsConstructivism 022
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 09/11/2025The cybernetic principle of recursion seems to indicate diminishing returns on AI. We will hit a wall as the negotiable space is shrinking. #AI #Cybernetics #Cyb3rsyn harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/o...harishsnotebook.wordpress.comOn Diversity as a Cybernetic Necessity:In today’s post, I want to explore an idea that often gets framed in moral terms but is actually a cybernetic imperative: the necessity of diversity for viable systems. Whether we are talking… 031
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 06/11/2025From my next post in the works: 7.1 The description cannot step outside the language that gives it form. 7.2 The world does not require these distinctions. We do. …. 7.6 Our knowledge is therefore never of things-in-themselves, only of the distinctions we impose. #CyberneticConstructivism 030
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 19/10/2025When choices are removed, a different logic takes hold. A decision made under constraint, with no alternatives available, becomes irreversible. #Cybernetics harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/m...harishsnotebook.wordpress.comMinimizing Harm, Maximizing Humanity:In today’s post, I am looking at a question that is rarely asked in management. What if the most responsible course of action is not to maximize benefit, but to minimize harm? In decision the… 020
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Bundle Deal for Second Order Cybernetics and Connecting the Dots… In 2025, I was fortunate to have two of my books published. leanpub.com/b/systemsfor... More here - harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/b... #Cybernetics #Lean #Toyotaleanpub.comCyb3rSyn Labs BundleMultidisciplinary Insights for Tech. Executives, Practitioners and Entrepreneurs! 121
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 29/09/2025My latest venture with Venky. Published by Cyb3rSyn Labs. 041
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Spencer Brown’s Reentry is a great way to look for cognitive blind spots. 020
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 28/08/2025You don’t have purpose other than to create a purpose for you. #Existentialism 130
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Instead of asking "how do we get people to serve the organization's purpose," we need to ask "how do we create conditions where each person's independent viability contributes to emerging patterns that enhance collective viability?" #Recursion #CyberneticLeadership 030
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 11/08/2025When we come to value epistemic humility, we see that we do not see what we do not see. #CyberneticConstructivism Hat tip to HvF. 030
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 10/08/2025seductive appeal of ontological frameworks lies in their promise of certainty. They offer false comfort of believing we can transcend our limitations as observers & access reality directly. this promise is precisely what makes them epistemologically arrogant #EpistemicHumility vs #EpistemicArrogance 030
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 08/08/2025My latest venture with my good friend Venky. Published by another good friend @laraghavan.bsky.social Connecting the Dots… Reflections on the Toyota Production System I have found that connecting dots across fields deepens our understanding of the subject at hand. #TPS #RespectForHumanity 021
Reposted by Harish JoseBenjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 03/08/2025New Book: Connecting the Dots… Reflections on The Toyota Production System – Jose and Krishnamurthy (2025) stream.syscoi.com/2025/08/03/n...stream.syscoi.comNew Book: Connecting the Dots… Reflections on The Toyota Production System – Jose and Krishnamurthy (2025)Guest Post by Harish Jose and Venky + Exclusive Podcast Laksh RaghavanAugust 03, 2025 I’m super excited to announce the details of an upcoming book co-authored by Harish Jose and Ven… 142
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 04/08/2025The future is invented every second. Invent a better one- Hari Seldon (Foundation TV series) 010
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 02/08/2025It is not the world that informs us. It is we who, through our distinctions, in-form the world. #CyberneticConstructivism 110
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 02/08/2025My latest post - The -isms of a Man Who Rejected -isms: You are the Copernican revolution. The observer is not the center of the universe, but every observation necessarily has them at its center. #HvF #CyberneticConstructivism harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/t...harishsnotebook.wordpress.comThe -isms of a Man Who Rejected -isms:In today’s post, I am exploring one of the most fascinating aspects of Heinz von Foerster’s work: his complete rejection of philosophical labels and -isms. Von Foerster, the Austrian-Am… 020
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Third in the series… Heidegger, Systems Thinking, and Cybernetics #NLM #Heidegger #Cybernetics youtube.com/watch?v=fYIs...youtube.comHeidegger, Systems Thinking, and CyberneticsYouTube video by Harish Jose 030
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Checking out NLM for my posts. They did a fine job. Check this out - Arbitrariness of Objectivism, A Deep Dive #CyberneticConstructivism #Pluralism youtu.be/Q2X0zOIumQQ?...youtu.beThe Arbitrariness of ObjectivismYouTube video by Harish Jose 010
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 26/07/2025harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/t... This is the illusion of completeness in the right thing, the comforting belief that something can be fully correct. It persists because thought gives us a sense of closure that reality cannot guarantee. #CyberneticConstructivism #HvFharishsnotebook.wordpress.comThe Right Thing and the Right Reason:In today’s post, I am exploring the notion of “doing the right thing.” We encounter this expectation everywhere in workplaces, personal relationships, and civic life. The phrase a… 010
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 21/07/2025We call gravity a law, yet apples fell long before Newton wrote his equations. The law is Newton’s construct, not the apple’s. Laws are abstractions we create to make sense of patterns. They are, dare I say, useful ‘fictions’ that help us navigate complexity. 240
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 19/07/2025My latest post - A Good Enough Post Engaging with complexity means getting better at being good enough, continuously. harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2025/07/18/a...harishsnotebook.wordpress.comA Good Enough Post:In today’s post, I am exploring the notion that viability depends on our capacity for action, and that this capacity may not entirely rely on having a perfect grasp of “Truth.” This possibility, dr… 020
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 18/07/20251/2 From evolution, we see that Survival does not require absolute truth. It requires adequacy. Nervous systems evolved to attenuate complexity, not to copy it. #CyberneticConstructivism 110
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 17/07/20251/4 A theme I see in mainstream management is what I call “information based leadership.” This is the belief that if clearer information is provided, it will lead to the desired outcome. #Cybernetics 121
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 16/07/20251/3 #CyberneticConstructivism begins with an observation that is both simple and profound. The world contains an immense amount of variety, far more than any organism can manage. To regulate a system, a regulator must have at least as much variety as the system it controls. 251
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 15/07/20251/2 #Cybernetic #constructivism does not deny that brains exhibit emergent complexity or predictive behavior. It questions whether accuracy should be the goal. If the world’s variety cannot be fully captured, then perfect accuracy is both impossible and unnecessary. 240
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 12/07/2025My latest post - A tale of a thousand models It implies that robust intelligence does not require more accurate representations, but more diverse ways of being coupled to the world. harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2025/07/11/a...harishsnotebook.wordpress.comA Tale of a Thousand Models:In today’s post, I am further exploring the notion of models and mental models. We often speak of mental models as though they are neat packages of knowledge stored somewhere in the mind. These mod… 095
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Responsiveness is not a product of prediction alone. It emerges from vulnerability, concern, and the need to maintain coherence amid complexity. Without their own stakes in the world machines may simulate participation, but they do not truly engage. #AI #CyberneticConstructivism 020
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 10/07/20251/3 Cognitive structures are not designed to capture the world exhaustively, but to filter it adaptively. The principle of structural coupling rests on the organism’s ability to detect and reinforce patterns through repetition. 130
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 08/07/2025To navigate #complexity, we must see through many eyes. Difference is not a threat! It is our richest source of understanding. #Pluralism 021
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 07/07/20251/2 Linear thinking comes easy for us because it is cognitively economical. To cope with overwhelming complexity, we rely on abstractions, much like logarithmic shortcuts that reduce multiplication to mere addition. #CyberneticConstructivism 120
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Observer-independent reality may exist, but observer-centered framing is vital for sensemaking and action. The observer is truly king. #CyberneticConstructivism #Complexity 150
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 04/07/2025My latest post - On Probability… Probability tracks change in knowledge, not a change in the event itself. #Bayes #epistemology harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/o...harishsnotebook.wordpress.comOn Probability…In today’s post, I am exploring the nature of probability. Is probability an intrinsic feature of events that evolves over time, or is it something else entirely? My view is that probability … 042
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 03/07/20251/3 When the time comes, can I do the right thing? This is an interesting question, because the “right thing” is a fiction. I use the word fiction to emphasize that it is not something objectively out there in the world. It is something we must decide for ourselves. #CyberneticConstructivism 110
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 02/07/20251/2 The event does not have a probability that flows through time. Your favorite team winning the 2025 championship does not possess an inherent “35% chance property” that somehow transforms into a “100% chance property” when they claim victory. 120
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 02/07/2025"It is at the same time true that the world is what we see and that, nonetheless, we must learn to see it." Merleau-Ponty 010
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 30/06/2025In #cybernetic #constructivism, “information” is not an input but a trigger for deciding the undecidable. #HvF 032
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 27/06/20251/2 In science, we do not uncover final metaphysical truths. It is sense-making and surprise management. What matters is the dance, not the destination. Science builds grip, not ground. It helps us stay oriented, not arrive. 110
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 26/06/20251/2 To speak of representations suggests that there is something inside us that represents something outside. This risks slipping back into a dualistic view such as mind and world, model and reality. 100
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 21/06/2025My latest post - The Arbitrariness of Objectivism: Pluralism is neither relativism nor solipsism. It does not claim all views are valid. Rather, it asserts that no view is valid by default. harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2025/06/21/t...harishsnotebook.wordpress.comThe Arbitrariness of Objectivism:The readers of my blog might be aware that I appreciate the nuances of cybernetic constructivism. Cybernetic constructivism rejects the idea that we have access to an objective reality. It does not… 211
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 20/06/20251/2 Hard systems thinkers accuse soft approaches of relativism, but they are the “real” relativists. They absolutize their particular perspective while forgetting it is just one way of seeing. 100
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 19/06/2025One of the worst things about Windows 11 is the massive empty space on the taskbar when there’s icon overflow. One potential solution is disabling Hidden Icon menu. And no, I am not going to close down all the open windows, and no, I do not have too many windows open. 000
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Early clocks often had only one hand, like sundials. Adding a second or even third hand makes the design more complex, but it simplifies things for the user. A good design absorbs complexity so people do not have to. #VarietyEngineering #Usability 020
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 17/06/2025You get more value from LLMs like ChatGPT when you stop treating them like people. They are powerful tools that generate strings of language by predicting statistically likely word sequences. 020
Reposted by Harish JoseBenjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 16/06/2025Harish’s Notebook – The Ethics of Choice: Ackoff Meets von Foerster, and When is a ‘System’? – Jose (2025) stream.syscoi.com/2025/06/16/h...stream.syscoi.comHarish’s Notebook – The Ethics of Choice: Ackoff Meets von Foerster, and When is a ‘System’? – Jose (2025)Visit the post for more. 122
Harish Jose @harishjose.bsky.social · 15/06/2025To treat an enterprise as a social system is to treat its people as agents… It means expanding the variety of behaviors available to the parts of the system. And it means refusing to reduce individuals to roles, procedures, or interchangeable units. harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/t...harishsnotebook.wordpress.comThe Ethics of Choice: Ackoff Meets von FoersterIn today’s post I am exploring the need for ethics in Systems Thinking using the ideas of Heinz von Foerster and Russell Ackoff. Russell Ackoff and Heinz von Foerster came from different traditions… 152
