About Look Again with Anaga
Things are not what they seem.
Years ago, I took a sociology class with that title. The phrase stayed with me because it names a habit of mind: looking beyond appearances, questioning familiar explanations, and asking what deeper forces are producing what we see.
In my doctoral research, I used design science research to examine how complex systems address deep-rooted problems. Design science is a practical approach: it studies difficult problems by designing, evaluating, and refining better ways for systems to work. It taught me that lasting solutions rarely come from treating visible symptoms. They require us to understand—and sometimes redesign—the underlying mechanisms.
Look Again with Anaga brings that perspective to a wide range of subjects: technology and social media, history and philosophy, religion and power, astronomy and humanity’s place in the cosmos. We may travel from Socrates to prosperity preachers, or from artificial intelligence to the assumptions embedded in an everyday interaction.
These subjects may appear unrelated, but they are connected by a common set of questions:
What lies beneath the accepted explanation?
What assumptions have we stopped noticing?
Which systems and incentives shape the outcomes we see?
What becomes visible when we change our scale, timeframe, or point of view?
What might we build, change, or imagine instead?
The goal is not to supply a collection of final answers. It is to examine ideas carefully, make unexpected connections, and remain willing to revise what we think we know.
Subscribers will receive essays that connect ideas across disciplines, question familiar narratives, and move beyond diagnosis toward constructive possibilities. Readers are invited to question, challenge, extend, and enrich the conversation.
Sometimes understanding begins with a simple act:
Look again.
—Anaga Ojo
