GPS, UPI, Triangles - One Rule to Bind Them All? ft. Sanjay Purohit | #3TBPodcast

In this episode of 3 Techies Banter, Sanjay Purohit, CEO and Chief Curator at Centre for Exponential Change explains Societal Thinking as designing for society by combining design thinking and systems thinking across government, civil society, private sector, communities, and people. He argues that for population-scale challenges like education, healthcare, climate action, justice, and gender equity, it’s better to measure progress than success, and to start with the right scale-defining question.

He describes scaling as a network problem requiring multiple “Avengers”-like actors and emerging “system orchestrators,” and distinguishes context-free elements that should scale (like core rails and protocols) from context-aware and context-intensive work where change happens locally.

If you care about public infrastructure, social innovation, startups, policy, or simply thinking differently about big problems — this one is for you.

00:00 Highlights of the Episode 04:53 Podcast Guest Intro 06:04 Why He Left Corporate 07:32 Designing For Scale 14:16 Unbundling Big Problems 17:30 Healthcare Echo Example 19:23 Avengers Of Change 24:36 Networks Not Orgs 26:43 Onion Layers In Education 30:23 Small Scary Changes 35:56 Distribute Ability To Solve 38:47 Domino Effect Thinking 40:41 Chess Moves Ahead 41:14 GPS and Minimalism 44:26 Building Mindset Shift Networks 50:07 Teaching Systems Thinking 54:50 For Profit at Population Scale 01:02:43 Small Ideas Big Systems 01:07:26 Design for Redundancy 01:11:15 Closing Thoughts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices