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May 31

Take a sabbatical

In this blog I propose that there is immense value in incorporating a sabbatical as a part of your planning for retirement. A sabbatical will ensure a happier retirement. A sabbatical will bring you profound satisfaction of “making time for living life on your terms”. …

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Take a sabbatical
Take a sabbatical

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May 29

Building capacity for resonance and resilience

Background For the past five decades I have been practicing or informing design. My clients have primarily been Companies that valued growth through design. They take pride in being recognized by the market for being innovative. 22 years ago I remember asking participants of a global ethnographic study what an…

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Building capacity for Resonance and resilience
Building capacity for Resonance and resilience

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·May 24

Hi Why we need more conversations

Conversations are at the heart of collective meaning making process. A conversation encourages people to look deep inside for the feelings and thoughts we do not pay attention to as we go about our daily lives and to bring them to surface. This process of making implicit wisdom explicit or…

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Why we need more conversations
Why we need more conversations

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·May 19

Cauldron of Poesy

The past week has brought me a gush of reflections. These reflections have primarily emerged from my conversations with a wide variety of people. Some of these conversations happened one-on-one and in person, others in small groups and in larger online dialogues with people around the world. In this blog…

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Cauldron of Poesy
Cauldron of Poesy

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May 13

What does it mean to be a human in the age of AI

The tech sector is buzzing with excitement for generative AI. The conversations amongst techies are centered around “how do we integrate AI in our product?” On the other hand voices of alarm are also being raised by influential people such as Steve Wozniak, Elan Musk and Geoffrey Hinton who is…

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What does it mean to be a. human. in the age of AI
What does it mean to be a. human. in the age of AI

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May 9

A dire need to cultivate mindfulness in the Silicon Valley

Sitting on the sidelines of the Silicon Valley I wonder what drives people to California? Both Los Angeles and the Silicon Valley draw youth with dreams in their eyes everyday. …

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A dire need to cultivate mindfulness in the Silicon Valley
A dire need to cultivate mindfulness in the Silicon Valley

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·May 6

Reimagining the ecology of innovation

Background Through the past four plus decades of design practice I have been observing key characteristics that affect my client organizations’ capacity for managing innovation from the mind to market. In this blog I will discuss my reflections. My interest in innovation stems from my curiosity for organizational ecology and…

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Reimagining the ecology of innovation
Reimagining the ecology of innovation

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Apr 30

The need for humanitarian perspective in development of Generative AI

In a recent interview the. Google CEO Sundar Pichai told CBS, “AI development needs input from social scientists, ethicists, and philosophers. AI systems need to be aligned to human values, including morality. Concerns about the ethics of AI include its ability to hallucinate and potentially spread misinformation.” The enthusiasm in…

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The need for humanitarian perspective. in development of Generative AI
The need for humanitarian perspective. in development of Generative AI

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·Apr 22

Social Imagination: A space for Human Experience Design

In this blog I will share my experience of shifting my students’ mental frameworks from UX Design to Human Experience Design and from Human Computer Interaction to “Self Making in the Context of History Making” As I approach my last class of this semester teaching HCI and UX Design at…

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Social Imagination: A space for Human Experience Design
Social Imagination: A space for Human Experience Design

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·Apr 18

Are you an alchemist?

Last week I got into an hour-long deep conversation with a stranger I met in my hotel when she asked me “What do you do?” and I replied, “I am an ethnographer of social imagination”. For the next hour she showed keen interest in my work, my poetry and my…

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Are you an alchemist?
Are you an alchemist?

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Uday Dandavate

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A design activist and ethnographer of social imagination.

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