PinnedPhanish PuranamThe Freedom of Pac ManPac-Man was unleashed on the world when I was 8 years old. I, in turn, was unleashed on Pac-Man a few years later when I discovered him…Nov 20, 20201Nov 20, 20201
Phanish PuranamDesigning Artificial Organizations“Multi-agent collaboration” represents an interesting new wave of developments in Large Language Models and their applications. The vision…May 26May 26
Phanish PuranamNot until we go Markov(The question to which the title is an answer, dear reader, is buried at the end of this essay….you will have to read on. And skipping…Feb 17Feb 17
Phanish PuranamWanted: a definition of Human Centric OrganizingOrganizations fulfil two quite distinct roles in our civilization. First, they are social technologies for collectively attaining what is…Sep 10, 2023Sep 10, 2023
Phanish Puranam(Three) Theological Questions for the Age of AlgorithmsThe vertigo I experience from the rapid pace with which digital algorithms are changing our world, is often matched by my bewilderment at…May 24, 20231May 24, 20231
Phanish PuranamHow Organisation Design Can Rescue the SDGsTime is running out for the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) . Adopted by all UN member states in 2015, the seventeen…Feb 17, 2023Feb 17, 2023
Phanish PuranamAlgorithm-supported self-expressionI write haiku for fun, though I’m not very good at it. It’s really a form of journaling- a private retelling of interesting experiences to…Dec 19, 2022Dec 19, 2022
Phanish PuranamThree lessons in learning from learning machinesWe neither enter nor exit the world with omniscience, but in the intervening time, learn enough about it to survive and perhaps even to…Aug 31, 2022Aug 31, 2022
Phanish PuranamThe pursuit of happiness as a forecasting problemSo many have written so much for so long about the pursuit of happiness, without, it seems, having solved the problem definitively. This…Aug 18, 2022Aug 18, 2022
Phanish PuranamIn defence of groupthink“If only people would think for themselves!”Nov 10, 20211Nov 10, 20211
