# Feed This page is my quiet, unhurried ritual for sharing my life and work without slipping back into the doomscrolling world where distraction is the default. It lets me step out of the attention-cannibalising economy, and I hope it does a tiny bit for you from being pulled further into it. There are no trending topics here, no notifications, no likes, no algorithmic push, and no way to subscribe. My updates don’t demand your engagement. I share my reflections here for my own sake. Any relevance for you is a bonus. If something captures your attention, it isn't my writing. It is simply what your inner voice is seeking. #### January 2026 · India's Missing Demographic Dividend > [!Writing] > **[[The Clock We Didn't Watch - India's Demographic Dividend]]** > India's working-age population share peaks around 2028-2030, after which the demographic window begins to close. While the East Asian Tigers captured 25-40% of their GDP growth from demographic dividends, India has realised roughly a third of its potential—constrained by regulatory burdens, education-employment mismatches, and late-arriving policy interventions. This essay examines the structural barriers, quantifies the gap, and explores what course corrections remain possible in the narrowing window ahead. #### January 2026 · Personal Knowledge Management System > [!Writing] > **[[The Infrastructure for Insight - Cultivating Personal Judgement in the Age of Generation]]** > In a world primed for distraction, investing in your own system for capturing and connecting insights isn't optional. It's your edge. Start building a personal knowledge system to protect your continuity of thought, fuel deeper judgment, and make every experience count. #### January 2026 · Marathi Poetry > [!Poetry] > **[महत्त्वाकांक्षा](https://breathefeellove.in/2026/01/07/महत्त्वाकांक्षा/)** > To pause on a hot afternoon, on an empty street, leaning against the shutter of a closed shop, using my own arm as a pillow. To stretch my legs, let time loosen its grip, and lie there for an hour or two without explanation or guilt. That simple freedom to stop, to exist without demand. > > ![[Ambition.png|300]] #### January 2026 · Why Capable People Lose Presence in Everyday Life > [!Writing] > **[[The Quiet Epidemic of Checking Out at Home]]** > Repeated inattention at home isn’t always indifference. Its under-regulated presence is shaped by stress and context. Research suggests that this often appears alongside high cognitive performance rather than in opposition to it. This essay explores why it strains relationships and how awareness can be rebuilt. #### December 2025 · The Cost of "Just This Once" > [!Note] > **[[Marginal Cost Doctrine| Marginal Cost Doctrine by Prof. Clayton Christensen]]** > **100 Percent of the Time Is Easier Than 98 Percent of the Time** Many of us have convinced ourselves that we are able to break our own personal rules “just this once.” In our minds, we can justify these small choices. None of those things, when they first happen, feels like a life-changing decision. The marginal costs are almost always low. But each of those decisions can roll up into a much bigger picture, turning you into the kind of person you never wanted to be. That instinct to just use the marginal costs hides from us the true cost of our actions. > #### December 2025 · On Consistency > [!Writing] > **[[Consistency Compounds - Insights from 6 Years of Cycling Data]]** > Progress rarely comes from standout days. It comes from showing up on ordinary ones. Using long-term data as a lens, this piece explores how steady repetition reshapes capability and why we consistently misjudge what time can do. #### December 2025 · The Loud Silence > [!Poetry] > **[The Unwritten](https://breathefeellove.in/2025/12/28/the-unwritten/)** > > Under the gravels of time Lost words lay trapped Embraced in eternal silence Of unexpressed emotions A sigh breathes besides That corner always hidden Where in every heart resides One letter left unwritten #### December 2025 · A Leisurely Conversational Ride > [!Cycling] > > **[Last Ride of the Year](https://www.strava.com/activities/16860756082)** > With a bovine intervention! ![[Cow.jpeg|300]] #### December 2025 · Allocative Analysis of Grant Funding > [!Project] > **[Mapping Problems to Capital: Insights from Gitcoin Grants 24](https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/mapping-problems-to-capital-insights-from-gitcoin-grants-24/24962)** > Analysis to examine where GG24 capital allocation reliably reflects Ethereum priorities and where it structurally underfunds critical work #### December 2025 · On Conscious Eating > [!Note] > > **[[Gap Between Understanding and Acting|The Gap Between Understanding and Acting]]** > Most of our life is spent in the gap between intellectually understanding a concept and being able to shape our lived experience around it. > > **This distance between knowing and doing is one of the deepest sources of quiet misery.** > > Take, for example, the habit of distracted eating in front of a screen. It took the universe unimaginable acrobatics to bring a plate of fresh food before you. Your body, too, is a miracle—an inheritance shaped by countless generations, finely tuned to sense and savour. In every moment of tasting, thousands of taste buds come alive, each holding dozens of receptor cells decoding signals through a network of nerves to your brain, where this complex symphony is orchestrated into the simple joy of flavour. Yet instead of being present in awe, we turn away, feeding our minds an endless stream of looping videos. #### December 2025 · Don't let a crisis go to waste > [!Note] > **[[Role of Crisis in Individual Life|Role of Crisis in Individual Life]]** > As with society, so with the individual: real change rarely happens in the absence of crisis. > > If you haven’t experienced a crisis, you’ve barely experienced radical change. > > If you haven’t worked to change yourself, your ability to see another’s perspective is limited. > > If you can’t see yourself in another, you cannot resolve conflict with them. > > If you cannot resolve conflict, you drift toward a life of isolation. > > Not physically, but emotionally. Entropy will erode even the strongest relationships you’re born into or build if you cannot work through conflict. > > Unless safety or security is at stake, don’t interfere too much with your child’s encounter with a crisis. #### December 2025 · Open Source Software Grant Funding Retrospective > [!Project] > **[GG24 Interop Round Retrospective](https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/gg24-interop-round-retrospective/24936)** > The Interop Standards, Infrastructure & Analytics domain was established to address a growing coordination risk in Ethereum’s multi-chain evolution. The retrospective investigates the capital flow and highlights the need for differentiated funding tracks to focus on deployable cross-chain coordination infrastructure. #### December 2025 · Right to Repair > [!Note] > I miss those days growing up when literally every single thing in the house could be repaired for much cheaper than buying a new one. > *(Chapter 11: Currencies of the Commons, Sacred Economics)* > > ![[Right to Repair.jpeg]] > #### December 2025 · Morning moods > [!Note] > ![[20251210_085426.jpg|250]] ![[20251208_072807~2.jpg|250]] > > #### December 2025 · A cycling retro > [!Writing] > **[[Retrospective from Surviving A 300 km Cycling Ride]]** > A 300 km ride is its own feedback loop. The data (heart rate, cadence, pace) tells a story beneath the miles: what held strong, and what quietly cracked. Here’s the retrospective of what worked well, and what needs sharpening before the next big ride. #### December 2025 · The normalization of doomscrolling > [!Writing] > **[[The Era of Digital Distraction - A Co-Production by All of Us]]** > We scroll alone but we distract together. An essay on how the digital distraction era is quietly built by individual participation with a personal introspection on attention, time, and the choice to focus deeply instead of endlessly. #### December 2025 · Cycling Bangalore -> Mysore -> Bangalore > [!Cycling] > **[First 300 km Cycle Ride](https://www.strava.com/activities/16630944357)** > 2 days. 300 km. 13,000 Calories. On a cycling backpacking trip between Bangalore and Mysore. > > ![[MysoreStats.png]] #### November 2025 · Unpacking what it means to be healthy > [!Writing] > **[[You Can’t Outrun a Misaligned Life]]** > Most health advice focuses on habits you can track. But the truth is, you can’t optimize your way out of a misaligned life. The real work of well-being lives beneath the surface in how you see yourself, relate to others, and align your daily choices with what you truly value. #### October 2025 · The motions behind our moves > [!Poetry] > [**Cause**](https://rohitmalekar.wordpress.com/2025/10/04/cause/) > “There are no mistakes” > The universe commands > There is a reason > Where every drop lands > Waste time forcing choices > Or peek inside with a pause > Hidden behind all voices > Can you spot their cause? #### October 2025 · The shape of your mind > [!Writing] > **[[Why 99% of the Self-Help Industry Is Slop - Gust Against Gravity]]** > The self-help industry sells gusts of motivation to stones rolling down their own slopes. Unless you reshape your mountain, your mind, you’ll always roll the same way. Everything else is a gust against gravity. #### October 2025 · The delusion of purpose > [!Writing] > **[[Purpose.exe - Not Found]]** > This essay is a quiet dismantling of the purpose-industrial complex. It explores why meaning emerges not from goals, identity, or ambition, but from belonging, resonance, and the spaces that let you simply be while you’re still becoming. If you’ve ever reached a goal and felt strangely empty afterward, this is for you. #### October 2025 · Many Meanings of Interoperability in Ethereum > [!Project] > **[[GG24 Update - Inside the Interop Round]]** > As rollups, L2s, and app-specific chains proliferate, the Ethereum ecosystem risks splintering into isolated silos of data, liquidity, and governance. The Interop Standards, Infrastructure & Analytics domain was created to counter this drift by funding the open standards, analytics, and coordination tools that keep Ethereum transparent and interoperable. #### October 2025 · Instrumentation for the inner voice > [!Writing] > **[[The Physics of Desire]]** > We can model eclipses, storms, and markets, yet treat our inner world as unknowable. This essay asks a quieter question: what if desire follows laws too? Drawing a line from ancient insight to modern systems thinking, it frames desire as a causal chain rather than a mystery.