🌱 gardening new possibilities at analogue 🌱
through analogue, i’ve funded and supported speculative research + art across:
vasocomputation · memetics · blood microclots · trust and coordination · biological computing · plant intelligence · visual reasoning · somatic science · DNA chemical computing · archival recovery
most of this work began before it had a category. my role has been to notice it early, support it institutionally, and help turn it into public artifacts.
read more about the thesis:
slow cancellation of innovation / the paradox of progress
also: the resonant computing manifesto
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i write to think — some thinking that has resonated with others:
The Economy of Knowing
A Case for Strategic Ignorance by Design
rejecting my rejection
Transcendence: An Emergent Career Life
The Ramanujan Theory of Genius
From Physics Envy to Biology Envy
How To Know What To Do
Pāṇini’s Sanskrit for AI
Playing In The Biggest Leagues
some analogue projects that i work on include socratic salons, second renaissance, and common ground.
if you want to hear about what i'm building, writing, and thinking about around once a month, you can join my mailing list. most recent issue here.
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previously i’ve mostly worked in biotech, specifically in AI assisted diagnostics and clinical decision support.
MPhil, Cambridge: worked on human-machine collaboration pathways for clinical AI systems [link]
BHSc, UCalgary: worked on diagnostic tools for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy [link]
i engage with the santa fe institute’s emergent political economies group through the complexity global school, researching labor markets. i’m a positive deviants fellow at the wolf willow institute for systems learning, and my work is backed by the cosmos institute and the belong foundation.
i run a Bhagavad Gita reading group. it’s a closed group, but i wrote a guide on how you can start your own.
homebase is nyc
email is aishwaryakhanduja [at] gmail [dot] com