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The Misplaced Method : Optimisation Cannot Produce Ease - Ashoka Kumar Singh

The Misplaced Method

Optimisation Cannot Produce Ease

By: Ashoka Kumar Singh

Paperback | 25 March 2026

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The Misplaced Method is a structural inquiry into why modern life, despite unprecedented intelligence and technological power, feels persistently strained. It argues that our relentless drive to improve efficiency and maximise output is a misplaced method, one that overlooks the complexity of human existence.

The book examines a subtle misplacement at the heart of contemporary culture-the confusion of control with coherence. From individual experience to ethics, institutions, technology, and ecological crisis, it argues that problems scale outward from a misunderstanding of intelligence itself. 

The book offers no techniques and no ideology. Instead, it clarifies that perceptual clarity allows order to emerge without increasing control.

"An incisive structural inquiry into modern strain."

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