Guru Madhavan
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🏗️ Who keeps your world running? Honor them. Begin by seeing them.
🌏 In our pursuit of disruption, we often overlook the foundational care that makes progress possible. My new TEDx talk honors this forgotten courage, vital now more than ever.
▶️Watch + share: lnkd.in/enJxAQEP
#engineering #care
🌏 In our pursuit of disruption, we often overlook the foundational care that makes progress possible. My new TEDx talk honors this forgotten courage, vital now more than ever.
▶️Watch + share: lnkd.in/enJxAQEP
#engineering #care
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In a Perspective, three engineers propose an expansive mode of engineering practice that seeks to reduce conflict. According to the authors, peace engineering requires competence, capability, and character. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/41L550Y7Fk1
February 2, 2026 at 8:30 PM
In a Perspective, three engineers propose an expansive mode of engineering practice that seeks to reduce conflict. According to the authors, peace engineering requires competence, capability, and character. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/41L550Y7Fk1
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If friction teaches us how to feel the world, what might we be losing by smoothing it all out?
Read the full story on #FTEdit 👉 The beauty of friction ft.trib.al/zzfAu7i
Then tell us where you stand in today's #FTEdit poll 🗳️ ft.trib.al/S8QnoII
Read the full story on #FTEdit 👉 The beauty of friction ft.trib.al/zzfAu7i
Then tell us where you stand in today's #FTEdit poll 🗳️ ft.trib.al/S8QnoII
February 5, 2026 at 3:43 PM
If friction teaches us how to feel the world, what might we be losing by smoothing it all out?
Read the full story on #FTEdit 👉 The beauty of friction ft.trib.al/zzfAu7i
Then tell us where you stand in today's #FTEdit poll 🗳️ ft.trib.al/S8QnoII
Read the full story on #FTEdit 👉 The beauty of friction ft.trib.al/zzfAu7i
Then tell us where you stand in today's #FTEdit poll 🗳️ ft.trib.al/S8QnoII
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The beauty of friction ft.trib.al/Z3XZ4fe | opinion
The beauty of friction
We are conditioned to treat resistance as a defect, but suppressing it comes with its own risks
ft.trib.al
February 5, 2026 at 5:17 AM
The beauty of friction ft.trib.al/Z3XZ4fe | opinion
⚙️ THE BEAUTY OF FRICTION
📰 In my latest for the @financialtimes.com, I explore why GLP-1 and GPT should force us to ask: which kinds of frictions deserve to stay?
🔗Read here (ft.com/content/f9d6...) or 👇🏼
📰 In my latest for the @financialtimes.com, I explore why GLP-1 and GPT should force us to ask: which kinds of frictions deserve to stay?
🔗Read here (ft.com/content/f9d6...) or 👇🏼
February 5, 2026 at 2:27 PM
⚙️ THE BEAUTY OF FRICTION
📰 In my latest for the @financialtimes.com, I explore why GLP-1 and GPT should force us to ask: which kinds of frictions deserve to stay?
🔗Read here (ft.com/content/f9d6...) or 👇🏼
📰 In my latest for the @financialtimes.com, I explore why GLP-1 and GPT should force us to ask: which kinds of frictions deserve to stay?
🔗Read here (ft.com/content/f9d6...) or 👇🏼
Pleased to draw insights from Albrecht Dürer on how measurement must support human judgment, never supplant it.
Compulsive tracking doesn’t measure what really counts ft.trib.al/A97zUG0 | opinion
Compulsive tracking doesn’t measure what really counts
Centuries of the subtle craft of measurement have given way to gadgets that spew numbers
ft.trib.al
December 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Pleased to draw insights from Albrecht Dürer on how measurement must support human judgment, never supplant it.
✈️ Frequent-flyer “miles” don’t measure miles anymore. We still call them that anyway. It’s a telling inconsistency that hints at a larger issue.
🗞️ In my @financialtimes.com (@ftweekend.com) piece, starring Albrecht Dürer, I explore a few things.
🔗 Read here (ft.com/content/5e98...) or⬇️
🗞️ In my @financialtimes.com (@ftweekend.com) piece, starring Albrecht Dürer, I explore a few things.
🔗 Read here (ft.com/content/5e98...) or⬇️
December 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
✈️ Frequent-flyer “miles” don’t measure miles anymore. We still call them that anyway. It’s a telling inconsistency that hints at a larger issue.
🗞️ In my @financialtimes.com (@ftweekend.com) piece, starring Albrecht Dürer, I explore a few things.
🔗 Read here (ft.com/content/5e98...) or⬇️
🗞️ In my @financialtimes.com (@ftweekend.com) piece, starring Albrecht Dürer, I explore a few things.
🔗 Read here (ft.com/content/5e98...) or⬇️
The @raeng.org.uk honors the people who advance our profession, and it also honors the equations that have shaped the world. Along one of its walls, these equations show how we make sense of nature and improve life with precision and purpose.
Take a moment to look them up. #engineering
Take a moment to look them up. #engineering
December 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The @raeng.org.uk honors the people who advance our profession, and it also honors the equations that have shaped the world. Along one of its walls, these equations show how we make sense of nature and improve life with precision and purpose.
Take a moment to look them up. #engineering
Take a moment to look them up. #engineering
"The Hard Problem" of User and System
Tom Stoppard's passing invites reflection on his 2015 exchange with evolutionist David Sloan Wilson. As Stoppard developed his play "The Hard Problem," Wilson's (and Elliott Sober's) work on altruism shaped his thinking.
www.theguardian.com/books/2015/m...
Tom Stoppard's passing invites reflection on his 2015 exchange with evolutionist David Sloan Wilson. As Stoppard developed his play "The Hard Problem," Wilson's (and Elliott Sober's) work on altruism shaped his thinking.
www.theguardian.com/books/2015/m...
The hard problem: Tom Stoppard on the limits of what science can explain
Can evolution explain acts of kindness, and morality? We arranged a debate between a sceptical Tom Stoppard and the evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson. Stuart Jeffries acted as referee
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"The Hard Problem" of User and System
Tom Stoppard's passing invites reflection on his 2015 exchange with evolutionist David Sloan Wilson. As Stoppard developed his play "The Hard Problem," Wilson's (and Elliott Sober's) work on altruism shaped his thinking.
www.theguardian.com/books/2015/m...
Tom Stoppard's passing invites reflection on his 2015 exchange with evolutionist David Sloan Wilson. As Stoppard developed his play "The Hard Problem," Wilson's (and Elliott Sober's) work on altruism shaped his thinking.
www.theguardian.com/books/2015/m...
🙏🏼 This Thanksgiving I am grateful to be included in the fellowship of the U.K. Royal Academy of Engineering (@raeng.org.uk), and for its strong partnership with the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Looking forward to the work ahead. #engineering
Photos: Rob Lacey.
Photos: Rob Lacey.
November 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
🙏🏼 This Thanksgiving I am grateful to be included in the fellowship of the U.K. Royal Academy of Engineering (@raeng.org.uk), and for its strong partnership with the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Looking forward to the work ahead. #engineering
Photos: Rob Lacey.
Photos: Rob Lacey.
Explore the AI-Z of Engineering to discover the amazing breadth of #engineering careers, and find out what is in your future.
thisisengineering.org.uk/ai-z-of-engi...
#NationalEngineeringDay
@raeng.org.uk
thisisengineering.org.uk/ai-z-of-engi...
#NationalEngineeringDay
@raeng.org.uk
November 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Explore the AI-Z of Engineering to discover the amazing breadth of #engineering careers, and find out what is in your future.
thisisengineering.org.uk/ai-z-of-engi...
#NationalEngineeringDay
@raeng.org.uk
thisisengineering.org.uk/ai-z-of-engi...
#NationalEngineeringDay
@raeng.org.uk
🏗️ Who keeps your world running? Honor them. Begin by seeing them.
🌏 In our pursuit of disruption, we often overlook the foundational care that makes progress possible. My new TEDx talk honors this forgotten courage, vital now more than ever.
▶️Watch + share: lnkd.in/enJxAQEP
#engineering #care
🌏 In our pursuit of disruption, we often overlook the foundational care that makes progress possible. My new TEDx talk honors this forgotten courage, vital now more than ever.
▶️Watch + share: lnkd.in/enJxAQEP
#engineering #care
November 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🏗️ Who keeps your world running? Honor them. Begin by seeing them.
🌏 In our pursuit of disruption, we often overlook the foundational care that makes progress possible. My new TEDx talk honors this forgotten courage, vital now more than ever.
▶️Watch + share: lnkd.in/enJxAQEP
#engineering #care
🌏 In our pursuit of disruption, we often overlook the foundational care that makes progress possible. My new TEDx talk honors this forgotten courage, vital now more than ever.
▶️Watch + share: lnkd.in/enJxAQEP
#engineering #care
A thoughtful leadership exchange and common purpose.
The @raeng.org.uk, the @qeprize.bsky.social, and the U.S. National Academy of Engineering united in shared commitment to advance #engineering that improves lives, strengthens the profession, and celebrates the excellence that defines it.
The @raeng.org.uk, the @qeprize.bsky.social, and the U.S. National Academy of Engineering united in shared commitment to advance #engineering that improves lives, strengthens the profession, and celebrates the excellence that defines it.
October 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
A thoughtful leadership exchange and common purpose.
The @raeng.org.uk, the @qeprize.bsky.social, and the U.S. National Academy of Engineering united in shared commitment to advance #engineering that improves lives, strengthens the profession, and celebrates the excellence that defines it.
The @raeng.org.uk, the @qeprize.bsky.social, and the U.S. National Academy of Engineering united in shared commitment to advance #engineering that improves lives, strengthens the profession, and celebrates the excellence that defines it.
🤖 WHEN AI DIES ⚰️
✨ In my latest column for the National Academy of Engineering’s Bridge magazine, prompted by the recent events around TikTok, I explore how we’ve built AI into a dazzling yet deficient genius, machines of vast memory but no legacy. 🚨
🔗 Read here: www.nae.edu/340912/Invis...
✨ In my latest column for the National Academy of Engineering’s Bridge magazine, prompted by the recent events around TikTok, I explore how we’ve built AI into a dazzling yet deficient genius, machines of vast memory but no legacy. 🚨
🔗 Read here: www.nae.edu/340912/Invis...
October 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
🤖 WHEN AI DIES ⚰️
✨ In my latest column for the National Academy of Engineering’s Bridge magazine, prompted by the recent events around TikTok, I explore how we’ve built AI into a dazzling yet deficient genius, machines of vast memory but no legacy. 🚨
🔗 Read here: www.nae.edu/340912/Invis...
✨ In my latest column for the National Academy of Engineering’s Bridge magazine, prompted by the recent events around TikTok, I explore how we’ve built AI into a dazzling yet deficient genius, machines of vast memory but no legacy. 🚨
🔗 Read here: www.nae.edu/340912/Invis...
🙏🏼 Tremendously honored—and honoured—to be elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering. #RAEngFellows
www.nae.edu/340727/Guru-...
www.nae.edu/340727/Guru-...
We’re pleased to announce the 74 leading figures from the world of engineering and technology elected to our Fellowship at yesterday’s AGM. Meet them all now: https://raeng.org.uk/news/royal-academy-of-engineering-welcomes-74-new-fellows/
#RAEngFellows
#RAEngFellows
September 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🙏🏼 Tremendously honored—and honoured—to be elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering. #RAEngFellows
www.nae.edu/340727/Guru-...
www.nae.edu/340727/Guru-...
💡TECHNOLOGY. What do we really mean when we use that word?
☢️ In a Financial Times column, I argue “technology” now covers everything from nuclear warheads to noise cancelling headphones, stents to social media, and hair dryers to the Hoover Dam.
(💲) www.ft.com/content/a48c...
(📄) PDF images 👇
☢️ In a Financial Times column, I argue “technology” now covers everything from nuclear warheads to noise cancelling headphones, stents to social media, and hair dryers to the Hoover Dam.
(💲) www.ft.com/content/a48c...
(📄) PDF images 👇
July 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
💡TECHNOLOGY. What do we really mean when we use that word?
☢️ In a Financial Times column, I argue “technology” now covers everything from nuclear warheads to noise cancelling headphones, stents to social media, and hair dryers to the Hoover Dam.
(💲) www.ft.com/content/a48c...
(📄) PDF images 👇
☢️ In a Financial Times column, I argue “technology” now covers everything from nuclear warheads to noise cancelling headphones, stents to social media, and hair dryers to the Hoover Dam.
(💲) www.ft.com/content/a48c...
(📄) PDF images 👇
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We're EngineerTeen, a new program from the National Academy of Engineering and a sibling site to @engineergirlnae.bsky.social which builds on that community to help youth chart their path to become the technical leaders of tomorrow. We're excited to get started! Visit us at engineerteen.org 🙂
July 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
We're EngineerTeen, a new program from the National Academy of Engineering and a sibling site to @engineergirlnae.bsky.social which builds on that community to help youth chart their path to become the technical leaders of tomorrow. We're excited to get started! Visit us at engineerteen.org 🙂
🌍 Engineering is peer-reviewed by reality.
🎙️In the season finale of the @qeprize.bsky.social "Create the Future" #podcast, my cohost and fellow engineer Roma Agrawal and I roam through all sorts of topics.
🎧 Listen here: shows.acast.com/createthefut...
🎙️In the season finale of the @qeprize.bsky.social "Create the Future" #podcast, my cohost and fellow engineer Roma Agrawal and I roam through all sorts of topics.
🎧 Listen here: shows.acast.com/createthefut...
Guru & Roma reflect | Create the Future
shows.acast.com
July 1, 2025 at 11:32 AM
🌍 Engineering is peer-reviewed by reality.
🎙️In the season finale of the @qeprize.bsky.social "Create the Future" #podcast, my cohost and fellow engineer Roma Agrawal and I roam through all sorts of topics.
🎧 Listen here: shows.acast.com/createthefut...
🎙️In the season finale of the @qeprize.bsky.social "Create the Future" #podcast, my cohost and fellow engineer Roma Agrawal and I roam through all sorts of topics.
🎧 Listen here: shows.acast.com/createthefut...
🎧 Fire. Space. Coffee. Disability. Elections. Sanitation.
Six conversations. Six dimensions. All engineering.
From the everyday to the extraordinary, I’ve had the fortune to explore how #engineering runs through everything—seen and unseen—for the @qeprize.bsky.social podcast “Create the Future.”
Six conversations. Six dimensions. All engineering.
From the everyday to the extraordinary, I’ve had the fortune to explore how #engineering runs through everything—seen and unseen—for the @qeprize.bsky.social podcast “Create the Future.”
June 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
🎧 Fire. Space. Coffee. Disability. Elections. Sanitation.
Six conversations. Six dimensions. All engineering.
From the everyday to the extraordinary, I’ve had the fortune to explore how #engineering runs through everything—seen and unseen—for the @qeprize.bsky.social podcast “Create the Future.”
Six conversations. Six dimensions. All engineering.
From the everyday to the extraordinary, I’ve had the fortune to explore how #engineering runs through everything—seen and unseen—for the @qeprize.bsky.social podcast “Create the Future.”
✨ Centuries of dance offer what even our most advanced organizations still chase.
🥁 At the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art's "Delighting Krishna" exhibit, I was drawn to a mid-19th-century painting of garba raas, showing women dancing in a circle with synchronized, alternating claps...
🥁 At the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art's "Delighting Krishna" exhibit, I was drawn to a mid-19th-century painting of garba raas, showing women dancing in a circle with synchronized, alternating claps...
May 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
✨ Centuries of dance offer what even our most advanced organizations still chase.
🥁 At the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art's "Delighting Krishna" exhibit, I was drawn to a mid-19th-century painting of garba raas, showing women dancing in a circle with synchronized, alternating claps...
🥁 At the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art's "Delighting Krishna" exhibit, I was drawn to a mid-19th-century painting of garba raas, showing women dancing in a circle with synchronized, alternating claps...
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An engineer, an educator, and an evolutionary biologist walk into a bar...(well, actually, we talked at @evmed.bsky.social meetings); today, 3 years later, our plans for a new bridge between engineering and medicine are published in @pnasnexus.org!
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
May 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
An engineer, an educator, and an evolutionary biologist walk into a bar...(well, actually, we talked at @evmed.bsky.social meetings); today, 3 years later, our plans for a new bridge between engineering and medicine are published in @pnasnexus.org!
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
⚠️ Explanations for failures in designed and evolved systems. 🚫
🔓Read here in @pnasnexus.org : academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
🔍 @randynesse.bsky.social, Jay Labov, and I compare body and machine vulnerabilities such as design deficiencies, corrupted plans, assembly variations, and trade-offs. ⚖️
🔓Read here in @pnasnexus.org : academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
🔍 @randynesse.bsky.social, Jay Labov, and I compare body and machine vulnerabilities such as design deficiencies, corrupted plans, assembly variations, and trade-offs. ⚖️
May 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
⚠️ Explanations for failures in designed and evolved systems. 🚫
🔓Read here in @pnasnexus.org : academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
🔍 @randynesse.bsky.social, Jay Labov, and I compare body and machine vulnerabilities such as design deficiencies, corrupted plans, assembly variations, and trade-offs. ⚖️
🔓Read here in @pnasnexus.org : academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
🔍 @randynesse.bsky.social, Jay Labov, and I compare body and machine vulnerabilities such as design deficiencies, corrupted plans, assembly variations, and trade-offs. ⚖️
🔄 True #resilience isn’t about bouncing back—it’s about bouncing forward. In my recent #TEDx talk, I challenge what #resilience really means—with help from warships, a pointy-nosed engineer, a childhood memory and a goat-footed god! 🐐
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5r3...
#engineering
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5r3...
#engineering
April 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
🔄 True #resilience isn’t about bouncing back—it’s about bouncing forward. In my recent #TEDx talk, I challenge what #resilience really means—with help from warships, a pointy-nosed engineer, a childhood memory and a goat-footed god! 🐐
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5r3...
#engineering
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5r3...
#engineering
Bloom brightly and radiate hope, even if only for a season. 🌸
March 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Bloom brightly and radiate hope, even if only for a season. 🌸
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A review explores the possibilities and challenges of using AI in engineering. From autonomous vehicles, to robots, to AI-assisted surgery, we are entering an era of machines that can sense, learn, and make decisions without human supervision. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
March 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
A review explores the possibilities and challenges of using AI in engineering. From autonomous vehicles, to robots, to AI-assisted surgery, we are entering an era of machines that can sense, learn, and make decisions without human supervision. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
⏱️Five years ago, as COVID hit, I wrote in @wsj.com that engineering—not just medicine—would steer our recovery. Time bore it out: logistics outran tactics.
📡 Engineers scaled vaccines to billions in record time, fueled remote work, and held supply chains together when borders shut.
📡 Engineers scaled vaccines to billions in record time, fueled remote work, and held supply chains together when borders shut.
March 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
⏱️Five years ago, as COVID hit, I wrote in @wsj.com that engineering—not just medicine—would steer our recovery. Time bore it out: logistics outran tactics.
📡 Engineers scaled vaccines to billions in record time, fueled remote work, and held supply chains together when borders shut.
📡 Engineers scaled vaccines to billions in record time, fueled remote work, and held supply chains together when borders shut.