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…11 min read·Nov 20, 2020--1--1
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…5 min read·Feb 17, 2024----
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…6 min read·Sep 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…5 min read·May 24, 2023----
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…5 min read·Feb 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…8 min read·Dec 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…7 min read·Aug 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…5 min read·Aug 18, 2022----
Phanish PuranamIn defence of groupthink“If only people would think for themselves!”7 min read·Nov 10, 2021--1--1
Phanish PuranamAn eye for an IIt took no more than 0.33 days to conclude that my 13.67 days of quarantine, looming ahead, were not going to be the idyll in the company…7 min read·Apr 18, 2021----