Amitoj Singh
I’ve worked as an entrepreneur and institutional investor across private equity, venture capital, and hedge fund investing. Now I’m a PhD student at Harvard Business School, researching how organizations allocate attention and find direction. I’m based in Boston, teach yoga at HBS, and write about what changes when machines can take on cognitive work.
What I Practice
Two questions organize everything I do: awareness — what is actually happening? — and agency — what should we do, and what can we do? Both questions apply inward and outward.
Third Enlightenment
Writing and print let us externalize memory. Digital systems let us externalize computation. Now artificial intelligence lets us externalize cognition itself.
Read the frameworkFeatured Essays
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The Right Direction
Markets coordinate within rules they cannot choose. Better measurement sharpens the question of which objectives matter, without settling it.
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Strategic Time
Strategy needs time to pursue a commitment and learn whether it works. Organizations must protect that time from both rapid market signals and pressure to survive at any cost.
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The Architecture of Commitment
Organizations need stable purposes and methods that adapt to evidence. The question is which commitments to protect, which to revise, and what should trigger each change.