Tag: Modern Life and Meaning
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Are You Still in a Job Because You’re Playing the Short-Term Game?
Life feels fast these days, but a lot of it doesn’t lead anywhere. Everyone is busy, always connected, and constantly visible, yet few of us feel like we are truly moving forward. The real problem…
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The Four-Hour Happiness Con
I was scrolling through my Running WhatsApp group when I came across a post advertising a four-hour happiness workshop for ₹1999. The absurdity of it hit me so hard I almost dropped my phone. Happiness,…
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From Taste to Instinct
We live in a time that moves faster than we can process. Social media, endless notifications, curated feeds, streams of information: it’s all designed to keep us moving, scrolling, reacting. Most of us don’t notice…
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Hidden Frontiers: Technology in the Quiet Spaces of Life
This essay imagines possible futures, a thought experiment on how technology might touch the hidden corners of life I keep finding myself thinking about the corners of life that technology rarely touches. Not phones, apps,…
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Enough Isn’t a Number
Most of us don’t know. We chase more without ever stopping to ask what line we’re crossing. More money, more comfort, more recognition. We think when we hit the next milestone, that will be it.…
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Not a Finish Line, Just a Marker
Writing a hundred posts isn’t a finish line; it’s a water station in the middle of a marathon. You pause for a moment: take a sip, wipe the sweat, glance back at how far you’ve…
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History Has Many Faces: How Bias Shapes What We Remember
Introduction Have you ever noticed how the same historical figure can be portrayed as a saint, a villain, or a pragmatic leader, depending on who’s telling the story? The history you read in school, see…
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Who I Write For
People often ask me: “Who are you writing for?”“What’s your audience?”“Who’s your niche?” I get why they ask. We live in a world that likes to measure things — likes to fit them neatly into…
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From Surveillance to Sensemaking
Why Time-In, Time-Out Thinking Is Industrial Age Management Tracking time in/time out. Counting office days. Measuring presence. This is factory-era logic in a post-industrial world. It assumes: Productivity is time spent Value is visibility Control…
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Not Every Mile Needs a Medal
Running or sports isn’t just about fitness or playing It’s about how we choose to show up in life At the beginning of my running journey, I was chasing outcomes I wanted to run a…