Category: Objective Philosophy
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The Gallery of System Archetypes & Traps
I generated this using Gemini AI. For more about such archtetypes and traps, read the book “Peter M. Senge’s, The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization” These concepts are also discussed in “Thinking in Systems – A Primer”, by Donella Meadows
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What is System Dynamics?
While System Dynamics could mean to understand how a system would respond to variations in internal and external situations over time, as a descipline it is the use of simulation models to understand and improve a system’s behaviour. This includes modeling the system of interest by visualizing (mental models) its structure and variables (level &…
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Time Management – Another perspective!
Hrs/day 24 Sleeping 8 Fresh up, eating 1 Leisure 2 Exercise 1 Spirituality 1 Commute 1 Total Unavailable Hrs/day 14 Available Hrs/ day 10 For the available 10hrs/day, assume one works in 20mins intervals, i.e. 20mins focused work + 10mins break, then the overall focused work per hour is 40mins leading to 400mins (~6.5hrs) in…
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Evolve to Innovate! – A viewpoint
There’s no fun anymore in claiming to be developing an IoT solution to visualize data remotely or receive alerts in real time. It’s becoming as common as any company having a website. However, we need to acknowledge that the IoT, I-IoT or the I4.0 boom is motivating many to go back to the basics of…
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Framework of Spiritual Practise
I put this together based on Swami Sarvapriyananda’s talk on verse 39 of the Bhagavad Gita Problem Solution Method Agyanam (Ignorance) Gyanam (Knowledge) Shravana (listening) > Manana (reasoning) > Nididyasa (meditation)[ Jnana Yoga ] Vikshepa (Distraction) Ekagrata (Concentration) Upasana (Meditation)[ Raja Yoga ] Chitta Mala (Impurity of mind) Chitta Shuddhi (Purity of mind) Karma Yoga
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Why Nations Fail – Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson
I could relate the content with ST, particularly DM’s philosophy. The authors give many examples but one in particular gives the essences of a place called Nogales which is prosperous on one side where in poverty on the other side.They attribute it to two primary theories One leads to virtuous feeback circles where as the…
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How do you prolong a product’s valuable lifetime?
If you look objectively, the actual business interests of the initiative are after MR. Hence the longer the product is in the market the better. Even during the architecting phase one should keep that perspective to ensure market longevity of the product. In a disruptive environment, having a capable, scalable and resilient hardware with field…
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Sustainable happiness
I asked Perplexity GPT to apply the 5 why to “why should one earn a lot of money?”, here’s it’s response Would the world be a better place if we make point 5 as a priority for our children from childhood? Is it practical to do so? In this Katha Upanishad video Swami Sarvapriyananda quotes…
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A note on Systems Thinking, Systems Engineering, and Systems Architecting
To understand systems thinking, one must first gather the understanding of what a “system” means. A system is a combination of elements interconnected in a manner to achieve a specific purpose. Sometimes these elements are intelligent (agents) and their interactions are dynamic which lead to complex systems. Complex systems evolve over time to perform something…
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Assuring Quality
I am quoting the following statement from Madhav S. Phadke’s book Quality Engineering using Robust Design “The ideal quality a customer can receive is that every product delivers the target performance each time the product is used, under all intendent operating conditions, and throughout the product’s intended life, with no harmful side effects.” Though one…