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    <title>Portfolio</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/portfolio/</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Selected work across research, data tools, writing, and speaking — funding systems and analytics for digital public goods. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:29:48 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Rohit Malekar</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Rohit Malekar helps funders and open source ecosystems design grant programs, build analytics tools, and understand where capital flows and what it produces. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:29:48 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>BRM Ride Checklist</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/off-the-track/brm-checklist</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/off-the-track/brm-checklist</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Pre-packing checklist, gear list, and mid-ride carb reference for Brevet Randonneur Mondial rides. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:29:48 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Cycling</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/off-the-track/cycling</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ A ride log of long-distance cycling around Bangalore — Strava links, BRM attempts, and the slow grind of endurance. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:29:48 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Off the Track</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/off-the-track/</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/off-the-track/</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Cycling, poetry, and the slow miles that make the rest of the work possible. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:29:48 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Poetry</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/off-the-track/poetry</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/off-the-track/poetry</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ breathefeellove.in — poetry as a way of debugging emotions. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:29:48 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Reflections</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ First-person atomic notes — observations and arguments worked out in my own words. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:29:48 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Reference Notes</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/reference/</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Atomic notes on ideas from books, papers, and talks — each with its source cited. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:29:48 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Notes</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ An atomic notes library built in public — short reflections and referenced ideas that compound into essays over time. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:29:48 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Living Well</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/living-well/</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/living-well/</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Essays on attention, contentment, endurance sports, sleep, and the slow compounding of a deliberate life. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:29:48 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Coordination &amp; Public Goods</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/coordination/</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/coordination/</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Essays on funding mechanisms, grants programs, DAOs, and the data behind making Web3 ecosystems work. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:29:48 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Writings</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Essays on coordination and public goods, careers and product craft, organizations, and living well. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:29:48 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Building Better Orgs</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/building-better-orgs/</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/building-better-orgs/</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Essays on work culture, leadership, and the economics of how organizations make decisions. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:29:48 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Art of Work</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/art-of-work/</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/art-of-work/</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Essays on careers, product craft, consulting lessons, and staying competent in the age of AI. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:29:48 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Case Study: ENS DAO Governance Research Platform</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/portfolio/ens-dao-governance-research</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/portfolio/ens-dao-governance-research</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ How a reproducible analytics stack — Dagster, dbt, and DuckDB across 7 onchain and forum data sources — became the evidence base for Metagov's independent governance retrospective of ENS DAO, informing decisions over a $400M+ treasury. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Case Study: GG24 Interop Standards, Infrastructure &amp; Analytics Round</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/portfolio/gg24-interop-round</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/portfolio/gg24-interop-round</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Designing and operating Ethereum's first interop-focused grants domain in Gitcoin Grants 24 — a $100K+ quadratic funding round — and what the capital-allocation data revealed about how QF treats infrastructure. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>About</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/about</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/about</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Rohit Malekar builds funding systems, data tools, and governance research for open source ecosystems — after twenty years across consulting, product, and research at firms like Deloitte and Medallia. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Work With Me</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/work-with-me</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/work-with-me</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Consulting, fractional roles, and project-based collaborations in grant program design, ecosystem analytics, and funding systems for public-interest technology. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>What is not invented needs no revival</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/living-well/what-is-not-invented-needs-no-revival</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/living-well/what-is-not-invented-needs-no-revival</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Drawing on the philosophy of Sanatan Dharma and its quality of being eternal and discovered rather than invented, this piece argues that the same principle applies to relationships and careers. When we root ourselves in authentic truths rather than constructed identities, we need no symbols, no revival and no posturing. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>On Over-Independence</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/on-over-independence</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/on-over-independence</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ As a child, when you expressed a need but it didn’t work, or it came with a social cost (embarrassment, rejection, being seen as weak or burdensome), you often adapt by becoming self-sufficient. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>India&#039;s Cycle of Self-Defeat</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/india's-cycle-of-self-defeat</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/india's-cycle-of-self-defeat</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Sometimes I wonder if anyone hates Indians more than other Indians. Babur didn’t conquer his way in. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Ain&#039;t Life a Sandwich</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/ain't-life-a-sandwich</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/ain't-life-a-sandwich</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ The filling is made up of moments where you are fully alive, in the present, letting the universe experience itself through you, but sandwiched between rueful regret and unfulfilled desires. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Performance of Fineness</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/the-performance-of-fineness</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/the-performance-of-fineness</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ English is a poorer language for not having a word for the facade of normalcy we all put on our faces to go about everyday life, while hiding the storms we fight within. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Appreciation for Bitterness in Old Age</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/appreciation-for-bitterness-in-old-age</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/appreciation-for-bitterness-in-old-age</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ I have a newfound appreciation for why some old people are so bitter. Imagine every single adult who you grew up with being no more around you. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Zone 2 Training - The Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast of Cycling</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/living-well/zone-2-training---the-slow-is-smooth,-smooth-is-fast-of-cycling</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/living-well/zone-2-training---the-slow-is-smooth,-smooth-is-fast-of-cycling</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Most training instincts push toward harder effort, but Zone 2, the threshold where conversation is possible but unwanted, produces some of the deepest physiological adaptations in endurance sport. Consistent riding at this modest intensity builds mitochondria, shifts the body toward fat as its primary fuel, and quietly extends what's possible over long distances. The results are slow and invisible, which is precisely what makes them hard to trust. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Life as a Pendulum</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/life-as-a-pendulum</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/life-as-a-pendulum</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Life is like a pendulum, Swinging between the despairing, “I just can’t help it”, and willful, “I got this”, phases, But certainty is boring. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Aging Like a Ship Leaving Harbour</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/aging-like-a-ship-leaving-harbour</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/aging-like-a-ship-leaving-harbour</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Aging is so much like a ship leaving the harbour. Slow but certain. Things that were once close, drift away. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>True Ambition vs Desire</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/true-ambition-vs-desire</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/true-ambition-vs-desire</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Rabbit-holing into etymology can be a humbling experience. Take महत्त्वाकांक्षा (mahattva-ākāṃkṣā) — ambition — for example. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Everyone in Their 40s Is a Landlord</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/everyone-in-their-40s-is-a-landlord</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/everyone-in-their-40s-is-a-landlord</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Everyone in their 40s is a landlord. Hear me out. If you’ve turned that page in your life, you know what I’m talking about. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Autonomy Was Rarely Ours to Surrender</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/coordination/autonomy-was-rarely-ours-to-surrender</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/coordination/autonomy-was-rarely-ours-to-surrender</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ In India, the erosion of privacy and the failure of decentralization share a common root — not apathy, but a cultural conditioning that made surrendering autonomy feel natural. From joint families to Aadhaar, deference to power was never forced; it was familiar. This essay traces how that instinct was built, how it scaled, and why unlearning it is the real political project. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Grind and the Gift of Perspective</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/the-grind-and-the-gift-of-perspective</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/the-grind-and-the-gift-of-perspective</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ At times, you go by for years, stumbling at a thing, challenged but never overcoming the struggle, building a narrative for yourself that you are limited in your being and are not meant to prevail. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>AI Didn&#039;t Raise the Bar. It Revealed It.</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/art-of-work/ai-didn't-raise-the-bar.-it-revealed-it.</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/art-of-work/ai-didn't-raise-the-bar.-it-revealed-it.</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ The baseline for knowledge work has changed, even before AI tools are fully reliable. Tasks built on relaying, summarizing, and packaging information are quickly becoming table stakes, which pushes real value toward judgment and original thinking. This essay explores why that shift feels threatening, where it creates freedom, and how professionals can respond by moving from compliance to craft. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>AI Will Make You &quot;Look&quot; Competent. That&#039;s the Problem.</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/art-of-work/ai-will-make-you-%22look%22-competent.-that's-the-problem.</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/art-of-work/ai-will-make-you-%22look%22-competent.-that's-the-problem.</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ "You don't need to learn X in the age of AI" is one of the most viral pieces of advice right now, and one of the most quietly damaging. The short burst of productivity AI provides on unfamiliar terrain is real, but it's borrowed. This essay offers a two-mode framework for using AI in a way that compounds your skills rather than substitutes for them. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>GG24 Update - Inside the Interop Round</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/coordination/gg24-update---inside-the-interop-round</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/coordination/gg24-update---inside-the-interop-round</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ As Ethereum fragments across rollups and L2s, the risk isn't just scaling—it's losing the coherence that makes the ecosystem trustworthy and coordinated. Interoperability isn't one problem; it spans five distinct layers from protocol plumbing to data, governance, and funding infrastructure. This update goes inside the GG24 Interop Standards, Infrastructure & Analytics round to map who is building those layers today and why this work matters for Ethereum's connected future. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Human Paradox of Dharma</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/the-human-paradox-of-dharma</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/the-human-paradox-of-dharma</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Nothing beats the mental gymnastics to justify falling for a temptation, except, the self-deceit to rationalize and live with the consequences after. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Being Right Isn&#039;t Enough - Lessons for Ethereum from a 90s OS War</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/coordination/being-right-isn't-enough---lessons-for-ethereum-from-a-90s-os-war</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/coordination/being-right-isn't-enough---lessons-for-ethereum-from-a-90s-os-war</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ GNU Hurd was architecturally superior to Linux and lost anyway, not because it was wrong, but because being right isn't enough. The same pattern haunts Ethereum today: the Hurd/Linux analogy, taken seriously, doesn't predict that the better-architected platform reforms in time; it predicts it loses. This essay draws five lessons from the 1990s OS war and holds them against what Ethereum has recently shipped, separating announcements that indicate the right problems are being named from the outcomes data that would prove those diagnoses are translating into reality. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Privacy Versus Secrecy</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/reference/privacy-versus-secrecy</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/reference/privacy-versus-secrecy</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Staying Sane When Insanity Is a Click Away</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/living-well/staying-sane-when-insanity-is-a-click-away</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/living-well/staying-sane-when-insanity-is-a-click-away</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ News and misinformation can feel one click away from overwhelming sanity. Meaning has to be chosen; agency belongs inside a circle of influence, and the rest can be cancelled, not from indifference but from prioritisation. This essay explores a deliberate stance for staying grounded, and why information technology today resembles early humans learning to hold fire. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Biggest Risk With AI Isn’t Job Loss. It’s Loss of Agency.</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/art-of-work/the-biggest-risk-with-ai-isn%E2%80%99t-job-loss.-it%E2%80%99s-loss-of-agency.</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/art-of-work/the-biggest-risk-with-ai-isn%E2%80%99t-job-loss.-it%E2%80%99s-loss-of-agency.</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ 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. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Beyond Stages - A Multi-Dimensional Framework for Evaluating L2s</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/coordination/beyond-stages---a-multi-dimensional-framework-for-evaluating-l2s</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/coordination/beyond-stages---a-multi-dimensional-framework-for-evaluating-l2s</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ 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. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Why Most Organisations Aren’t Ready for AI (and It’s Not a Tech Problem)</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/building-better-orgs/why-most-organisations-aren%E2%80%99t-ready-for-ai-(and-it%E2%80%99s-not-a-tech-problem)</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/building-better-orgs/why-most-organisations-aren%E2%80%99t-ready-for-ai-(and-it%E2%80%99s-not-a-tech-problem)</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ 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. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Dual Gifts of Consciousness</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/the-dual-gifts-of-consciousness</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/self/the-dual-gifts-of-consciousness</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ I don’t know what this is, spoken poetry or what not. Sometimes, I just write down what’s flowing, and the meaning shows up days later. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Order in Consciousness Through Goal Pursuit</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/reference/order-in-consciousness-through-goal-pursuit</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/reference/order-in-consciousness-through-goal-pursuit</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ The optimal state of inner experience is one in which there is order in consciousness. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Goals as Perceptual Lenses</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/reference/goals-as-perceptual-lenses</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/notes/reference/goals-as-perceptual-lenses</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ 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. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Utility of Marriage</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/living-well/the-utility-of-marriage</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/living-well/the-utility-of-marriage</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ 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. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>AI Can Solve Your Problems. It Can’t Build You.</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/living-well/ai-can-solve-your-problems.-it-can%E2%80%99t-build-you.</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/living-well/ai-can-solve-your-problems.-it-can%E2%80%99t-build-you.</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ AI promises to solve our problems faster than we can solve ourselves, but solutions aren't the same as transformation. Using the forge as 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. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Mind&#039;s Terms of Service</title>
    <link>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/living-well/the-mind's-terms-of-service</link>
    <guid>https://rohitmalekar.in/articles/living-well/the-mind's-terms-of-service</guid>
    <description><![CDATA[ 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. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Life You Live Is Shaped by the Words You Use</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ 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. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ 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. ]]></description>
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