I have completed a second book:
Epistemika
The book explores questions of decision-making, institutional failure, cognitive bias, wisdom, organizational learning, and the epistemic foundations of modern civilization.
Drawing upon insights from strategic management, psychology, political history, systems thinking, and philosophy, it examines why intelligent individuals and institutions so often arrive at remarkably poor decisions—and what can be done about it.
At its heart, Epistemika is a book about how societies think, how they fail, and how they might learn again.
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Below is the Publisher's Description of the book.
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Publisher's Description
Why do the smartest rooms in America routinely make the most catastrophic decisions?
We did not arrive at this point of civilizational fragility by accident.
From the strategic quagmire of the Iraq War to systemic collapses in public health, economic infrastructure, media ecosystems, and technological governance, America's recurring crises share a single hidden root: a breakdown of our collective decision-making apparatus.
In Epistemika, technologist and academic Anand Manikutty delivers a polymathic, cross-domain diagnosis of a society trapped in an epistemic monoculture.
Drawing on fifteen years of experience writing books and articles, alongside insights from strategic management and global political history, Manikutty argues that intelligence alone cannot save us.
When individual cognitive biases harden into institutional echo chambers, and elite spaces reward manufactured consensus over rigorous truth-seeking, systemic failure becomes a statistical certainty.
But this is not merely a book of diagnostic despair.
It is an operational manual for renewal.
Deeply philosophical yet fiercely practical, Epistemika bridges the gap between institutional blueprints and the human soul.
It is an urgent invitation to reject performative certainty, embrace saĝo (wisdom), and help construct a civilization worthy of its collective intelligence.
Discover the architecture of productive dissent.
Turn the page and begin the journey.
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Epistemika
On Wisdom, Institutions, and the Art of Thinking Clearly
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