I believe that all the major events in our lives are predetermined. I also believe that despite that, our duty is to act without any attachment to the outcome. But one may ask, why make an effort if the outcome is fixed? Because it’s our duty to keep the wheel…
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A fall; Fear; Happiness
A fall India is the birthplace of the most profound, liberating, and subtle concepts of spirituality and enlightenment. But the present day’s society is so entangled in religious fanaticism; it’s a cruel twist. The focus of a large section of the population on identities of religion, caste, and language reflects…
Thoughts: AI, Business, and Technology
AI and Software Products 1] Because large language models compute and not think, they’re unlikely to ever match humans in complex decision-making and knowledge creation. 2] What seems to be solved though, is software engineering to an extent. Most software engineers would start to include sales, marketing, and product tasks…
Kiwis, Amla, and behavior change
Trigger A couple of days ago, I tried eating a bowl of kiwis and raw amla (Indian Gooseberries) as part of my daily routine to consume nutritious foods. But they tasted so intense and sour that I felt like throwing up. This wasn’t an overreaction – I’ve never enjoyed citrus…
Dualities, triads, and Scandinavia
From the wave-particle duality of the fundamental particles to the dualism of the observer and the absolute in the vedas, nature and philosophy often present themselves in dualities. Such dualities appear everywhere: magnetic poles, the arrow of time, and right & wrong. Yet, reality often resolves itself in triads. Atoms…
When the waves recede, the seashells remain
The year 2025 brought a lot of learning for me. A series of losses, followed by months of pain and hollowness, overlapping with wandering across foreign lands, brought about some profound realisations and finally, healing. Somehow, it all fit into a single year. Being without a job for the most…
What Chess teaches us
My biggest learning in Chess is that small moves lead to big outcomes. Like the butterfly effect. A quiet, harmless, preemptive move of placing a Rook at a particular square proves to be dangerous for your opponent in the endgame. And just like that, the tiny daily habits compound to…
Is hope a good thing?
It is said that it is wise to try to be detached from the outcomes of your actions. Does it mean, that when we start something new, we should not hope for the best and rather just focus on the moment, doing the work? When life entangles us in a…
Rebuilding the habit of meditation
Habit was breaking away I have been pursuing meditation, though very irregularly, since a couple of years now. When I started taking it seriously some time back, I experienced cool things (I’ll explain that further) a couple of times. But I guess I got over confident, and spiralled out of…