# 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. #### December 2025 · On Conscious Eating > [!Note] > > **[[Well-Being - 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] > **[[Well-Being - Crisis, Change, and Conflict|Crisis, Change, and Conflict]]** > 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.