About Rohit Krishnan
I want to identify and explain the non-obvious mechanisms driving innovation and its consequences, especially where technology intersects with economic structures and business strategy.
In a complex world we're forced to understand things piecemeal, caressing the elephant's trunk and tail and hoping to understand its full majesty. That's the goal.
Why Strange Loop?
Because as Hofstadter said:
when I say "strange loop", I have something else in mind — a less concrete, more elusive notion. What I mean by "strange loop" is — here goes a first stab, anyway — not a physical circuit but an abstract loop in which, in the series of stages that constitute the cycling-around, there is a shift from one level of abstraction (or structure) to another, which feels like an upwards movement in an hierarchy, and yet somehow the successive "upward" shifts turn out to give rise to a closed cycle