To love India, we have to shift our cognitive lens away from the simple, clean eqns of Euclidean Geometry (where everything fits into neat straight lines) & upgrade to the complex eqns of Fractals (where patterns emerge out of infinite, self-repeating chaos).
China built a beautifully engineered machine. India is a self-evolving, organic jungle. A machine is orderly until it breaks; a jungle is chaotic, but it never stops living.
Ancient India's strength was its modular decentralization. The central king (Chakravartin) rarely interfered with the local governance laws (Shreni-Dharma of merchant guilds/Grama-Sabhas of villages). Every community had its own unique operating system.
When Nooyi says "the beauty of India is in its chaos," she is instinctively recognizing that India's survival mechanism for 5000 yrs has been its ability to absorb, metabolize & integrate turbulence, rather than trying to sanitize it through forced, top-down uniformity.
In the Western mindset, "chaos" implies a total lack of structure/failure of a system. But in physics & mathematics, Chaos Theory proves that complex, seemingly random systems actually have deep, underlying patterns & feedback loops that are highly adaptive.
Ancient Indian thought, specifically Sankhya Darshana, formalized this exact reality through the interplay of 2 cosmic entities: Purusha & Prakriti.
China’s model is built on artificial Purusha: absolute, rigid, uniform order. India’s model is rooted in Prakriti: a living, breathing, non-linear ecosystem where 1000s of variables (languages, sub-cultures, independent decentralized units) interact simultaneously.
Prakriti looks chaotic from the outside, but it is highly resilient because a collapse in 1 node does not crash the entire network. Rigidly uniform systems are efficient in the short term, but they suffer from brittleness under unexpected systemic shocks.
Order requires single-variable compliance, whereas India operates on multivariable coexistence.
In ancient Indian epistemology, the Jain school perfected a highly sophisticated logical framework called Anekantavada (the doctrine of non-absolutism/manyness of reality). It states that reality is infinitely complex & has multiple facets (Ananta-dharmatmakam vastu). No single perspective can claim absolute monopoly over the entire system.
A homogenous society (like China) operates like a single-threaded software program. It executes commands seamlessly & cleanly because there are no competing logic loops. India operates like an massive, multi-threaded, open-source asynchronous protocol. It looks messy, it looks confusing & it lacks standard symmetry, but it allows completely contradictory truths, lifestyles & economic layers to occupy the exact same physical space w/o destroying 1 another. 🙏🙏
@elonmusk Is it really? I found it quite basic but definitely worded with high end sophistication.
Tribal knowledge has been the IP of any org , eventually turning into a hurdle for internal innovation. Models take the ops away > tribe gets the space to constantly improve their learning.
@IdoCohen1011@DaganLauren Not all wars are combative, just look at the. Number of riots, terrorist attacks, attempts of destabilisation, infiltration, fake currency, plenty of things if you do a deeper research
@IdoCohen1011@DaganLauren Growth is a function of multiple parameters, am one of them being overall population and homogeneity in it, the other is the friendliness of the neighbours, India is surrounded by unfriendly volatile countries
@saket71@nsitharaman From my POV, she wasn’t covering politics before this, did cover some topics like pollution, etc. this CJP is a new project, an opportunity to her in the political coverage (India today). Of course she can’t lowball this opportunity.
@zone5aviation It’s not even about that, it’s about ‘who else’? Modi’s era has seen 2 China conflicts, 1 pak conflict, Covid, Russia Ukraine, Israel ME, genz in SL, Nepal, BD, etc, and inspite of that delivered progress
@Windsofchange72 It’s not a big deal, it’s a cartoon with a political take enveloping some kind of insult. But who cares. I am sure if TOI publishes a Vikings cartoon to depict something happening in Norway, it won’t be a big thing either
I am visiting NewYork to meet the procurement leaders and how they are using AI in their functions.
Would love to get connected if you think AI is changing Procurement’s R&R.
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@gokulr Doubt that. Sure if it is a micro saas. But for an enterprise solution, one needs a designers mindset for the user experience and experiences are designed. Visual design is just one part of it
@tom_komatsuKM@MalaMiner85 Not true exactly, there are dishes like lauki ka raita or taroi kis sabzi that are often made by just using salt, and they are quite yummy. Then people do add ons of spices like cumin, turmeric etc, looking at the weather, and the combination of other food items on the plate