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Articles and observations across industry, leadership, technology, business, society, and learning.

Industry · 9/21/2026

Beyond the Degree: Test the Work Before Judging the Engineer

Does supervised practice make engineering graduates more job-ready? Rather than accept a headline’s diagnosis, Indian industry could test a narrower proposition through safe workplace tasks in measurement, troubleshooting and quality.

Indian engineeringJob readinessSupervised practiceWorkplace assessmentQuality
Industry · 9/21/2026

When AI Leaves the Screen, the Test Changes

Physical AI should be judged by more than recognition accuracy. A bounded inspection pilot can test whether edge inference meets timing requirements, fails safely and improves on an existing quality-control baseline—before it gains authority over a machine.

RoboticsEdge AIIndustrial AutomationQuality ControlSafe Failure
Society · 9/21/2026

Do We Review Machines More Carefully Than the People Operating Them?

The Delhi High Court’s reported concern about labourers’ pay and neglect raises a practical management question: should pay, training and recognition receive the same disciplined review as safety and quality? A proposed experiment focuses on accountability without assuming causal links.

Dignity of WorkEngineering ManagementPayWorkplace LearningRecognition
Society · 8 min

When technology changes dependency

A placeholder essay examining how tools, money, and systems reshape the ways people need one another.

TechnologyHuman behaviour
Industry · 6 min

Learning from the shop floor

A framework for turning operational observation into practical organisational learning.

ManufacturingLearning
Leadership · 7 min

Leadership as system design

Why good leadership may be less about control and more about creating conditions for sound decisions.

TeamsDecision-making
AI & Technology · 9 min

AI and institutional memory

Questions for organisations considering AI as a layer over accumulated experience.

AIKnowledge