** 🏠 [[Home|Home]] · 📂 [[Portfolio|Portfolio]] · ✍️ [[Writings|Writing]] · ⏳ Feed** # 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. #### February 2026 · The Uneven Agency in the World of AI > [!Writing] > > **[[The Biggest Risk With AI Isn’t Job Loss. It’s Loss of Agency.]]** > Every technological wave has followed a reassuring pattern of displacement, adaptation, and expansion. AI is expected to do the same, but it operates in the domain of judgment and abstraction, not just repetitive tasks, representing a possible structural break from historical precedent. This essay explores why the real risk isn't mass unemployment but uneven agency, and why the capacity to remain cognitively central may not distribute as widely as we assume. #### February 2026 · Mornings in Bangalore > [!Cycling] > The best window of time to cycle in Bangalore ends a little bit after sunrise. 300 km for the year now and yearning for the next century ride! > ![[Cherry Blossom Sunrise.jpeg|300]] #### February 2026 · L2 Evaluation Framework > [!Writing] > [[Beyond Stages - A Multi-Dimensional Framework for Evaluating L2s]] > The current L2 evaluation landscape relies on a single-axis Stages framework that fails to capture the diversity of what Layer 2s actually offer. By distinguishing between convex and concave evaluation dispositions, a multi-dimensional approach can assess security inheritance, differentiated value, interoperability depth, and vibes-substance alignment. This essay proposes how L2Beat could expand its evaluation infrastructure to help users find the L2 that matches their needs rather than simply ranking chains on a single leaderboard. #### February 2026 · The Duality in the Design of the Mind > [!Writing] > **[[The Mind's Terms of Service]]** > Every gift the mind gives comes with a shadow. Imagination brings restless wanting. Perception carries bias. Self-awareness can't fully see itself. These aren't flaws to fix. They're part of the deal. This essay explores what changes when you stop fighting them. #### Februaru 2026 · Hindi Poetry > [!Poetry] > **[औक़ात](https://breathefeellove.in/2026/02/03/औक़ात/)** > Aukat (औक़ात) originates from the Arabic awqāt, plural of waqt (time). Over the years, as the Urdu word settled in Hindi, it came to mean one’s place in life. Perhaps our limits are nothing but time made visible. > > ![[Aukat.jpg|300]] > #### February 2026 · Most Organisations Aren't Built for AI > [!Writing] > **[[Why Most Organisations Aren’t Ready for AI (and It’s Not a Tech Problem)]]** > Every wave of enterprise technology has promised transformation but delivered tool-level adoption instead. The pattern repeats because organisations use technology to avoid judgment rather than amplify it. This essay traces four decades of this dynamic and argues that AI readiness starts with organisational self-awareness, not technical capability. #### January 2026 · Flow As a State of Ordered Consciousness > [!Note] > **[[Order in Consciousness Through Goal Pursuit]]** > The optimal state of inner experience is one in which there is order in consciousness. This happens when psychic energy—or attention—is invested in realistic goals, and when skills match the opportunities for action. The pursuit of a goal brings order in awareness because a person must concentrate attention on the task at hand and momentarily forget everything else. #### January 2026 · The Value of a Goal Isn't All About its Realization > [!Note] > **[[Goals as Perceptual Lenses]]** > A goal is a projection into the future that acts as a lens of perception, allowing you to notice information, ideas, and resources that aid in achieving it. This selective attention isn't conscious—the goal rewires what stands out to you in everyday experience. Two people can walk through the same environment and see entirely different things based on what they're pursuing. > This framing suggests that goals aren't just endpoints to reach; they're instruments of awareness. The value of setting a goal may lie less in its achievement and more in how it transforms what you perceive along the way. Goals don't just pull you forward—they shape what exists in your field of vision right now. > #### January 2026 · Becoming the Marriage, Not Being Just a Part of it > [!Writing] > **[[The Utility of Marriage]]** > Marriage is often romanticized as a destination, but it functions more like a crucible—demanding grind, suffering, and sacrifice. The couples who last don't just participate in the marriage; they become it. This essay explores why the work is brutal and why it might still be worth it. #### January 2026 · The Inner Work of Becoming in the Age of AI > [!Writing] > **[[AI Can Solve Your Problems. It Can’t Build You.]]** > > ![[AI Dilemma.png|300]] > > AI promises to solve our problems faster than we can solve ourselves, but solutions aren't the same as transformation. Using the forge as a metaphor, this essay explores a third path between acceleration without inner work and formation too slow to matter. The question isn't whether to use AI. It's whether we'll use it to skip the fire or to tend it. #### January 2026 · You Can't Alter What You Can't Describe > [!Writing] > **[[The Life You Live Is Shaped by the Words You Use]]** > Most of us move through life shaped by terrain we didn't consciously build—thoughts, memories, and assumptions that steer us without our awareness. This essay explores how deliberate writing becomes a tool for excavating what lies within, and why articulating your inner world is the first step toward living with intention rather than by accident. #### 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 · Hindi Poetry > [!Poetry] > **[शुक्र है](https://breathefeellove.in/2026/01/14/%e0%a4%b6%e0%a5%81%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b0-%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%88/)** > शुक्र है कि सिर्फ़ चाहने से दोबारा जी पाता हूँ उन यादों में, वरना ना जाने कितनी तस्वीरों में उलझा देता ये आवारा दिल। शुक्र है कि सिर्फ़ चाहने से नहीं बनती किसी की क़िस्मत, वरना ना जाने कितनी तक़दीरों में उलझा देता ये आवारा दिल। #### 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.