Reentry can be quite revealing. Photo not mine.

Perhaps 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

The 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...

A word is never alone. #Derrida #Deconstruction

From 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

When 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...

Bundle 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 #Toyota

My latest venture with Venky. Published by Cyb3rSyn Labs.

Spencer Brown’s Reentry is a great way to look for cognitive blind spots.

“Complexity” should be treated as a verb.

Organizations do not have purpose. People do.

You don’t have purpose other than to create a purpose for you. #Existentialism

Instead 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

When we come to value epistemic humility, we see that we do not see what we do not see. #CyberneticConstructivism Hat tip to HvF.

seductive 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

Brilliant!

My 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

New Book: Connecting the Dots… Reflections on The Toyota Production System – Jose and Krishnamurthy (2025) stream.syscoi.com/2025/08/03/n...

The future is invented every second. Invent a better one- Hari Seldon (Foundation TV series)

It is not the world that informs us. It is we who, through our distinctions, in-form the world.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ #CyberneticConstructivism

My 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...

Third in the series… Heidegger, Systems Thinking, and Cybernetics #NLM #Heidegger #Cybernetics youtube.com/watch?v=fYIs...

Checking out NLM for my posts. They did a fine job. Check this out - Arbitrariness of Objectivism, A Deep Dive #CyberneticConstructivism #Pluralism youtu.be/Q2X0zOIumQQ?...

harishsnotebook.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 #HvF

We 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.

My latest post - A Good Enough Post Engaging with complexity means getting better at being good enough, continuously. harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2025/07/18/a...

1/2 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

1/4 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

1/3 #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.

1/2 #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.

My 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...

Responsiveness 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

1/3 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.

To navigate #complexity, we must see through many eyes. Difference is not a threat! It is our richest source of understanding. #Pluralism

1/2 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

Observer-independent reality may exist, but observer-centered framing is vital for sensemaking and action. The observer is truly king. #CyberneticConstructivism #Complexity

My 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...

1/3 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

1/2 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.

"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

In #cybernetic #constructivism, “information” is not an input but a trigger for deciding the undecidable. #HvF

1/2 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.

1/2 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.

My 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...

1/2 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.

One 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.

Early 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

You 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.

Harish’s Notebook – The Ethics of Choice: Ackoff Meets von Foerster, and When is a ‘System’? – Jose (2025) stream.syscoi.com/2025/06/16/h...

To 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...