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Keeping the goose alive!

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I have always believed that books come to you at the right moment. Some resonate instantly, while others feel irrelevant until a later season of life. A couple of months ago, while staying at a resort, I picked up The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People from their bookshelf. I set aside the book I had carried with me and started reading it instead. I didn’t finish and left it behind, telling myself that I would buy a copy later. Then life happened, and I forgot all about it totally.

Last Sunday, I happened to notice the same book on a friend’s shelf. It felt almost like the book was following me around, waiting for me to finally pay attention. This time, I decided not to ignore the sign. I opened it again, and started reading. I found myself pausing at a concept of the balancing between P and PC. I did understand it but lacked practical knowledge on applying it in day to day activities. Ran to LLMs to understand.

The author explains it through the old story of the goose that lays golden eggs. Same old story. The golden eggs represent production (the outcomes/results) we chase, whether it’s money, recognition, or any form of visible success. The goose represents production capacity (the machine/engine/body) that produces those results in the first place. Our health, our skills, our relationships, and our systems.

If we chase only the eggs, we risk burning out the goose. If we only keep feeding the goose without expecting results, we might never see progress. The challenge is to balance both, because real growth lies in protecting the goose while still collecting the eggs. The body has to stay fit to order to work.

As I was fidgeting with this idea, I realized it tied back to many of the reflections I have thought about. The vicious cycle of health, strength that lasts, why we should rest and work like lions, and how we juggle priorities. Each of those themes circles around the same truth. The goose matters as much as the eggs.

The more I think about it, the more I see that not all outputs/results are created equal. Some are just one-time golden eggs like small wins that feel good for the moment but don’t leave much behind. Others are scalable. They build the goose itself, ensuring bigger and better eggs in the future. Daily yoga/lifting weights for better and healthier body.

On the other hand, scrolling endlessly on the phone or saying yes to draining conversations may give a quick golden egg of distraction or temporary comfort, but they don’t feed the goose.

We keep chasing golden eggs without realizing the goose is starving. Burnout, imbalance, even unhappiness all of it comes from forgetting the goose.

Before your next task, ask yourself. Am I feeding the goose or starving it? Since we often forget the basics.

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Thalaivan & Thalavii (2025) Movie Review

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When the teasers and trailers of Thalavan and Thalavi dropped, it seemed fun and interesting story. Like many others, I expected something powerful. But there were a wave of negative reviews and criticism. I assumed the same. Maybe the movie encouraged the couples to stay even though it was toxic.

At its core, the movie reveals a raw, uncomfortable truth: the real conflicts in a couple’s life are often not between them, but created externally especially by in-laws and family pressures.

In India, unlike in many Western contexts, couples rarely live fully independent lives. Except in cases of job migration, most couples either live with or eventually have their parents living with them. And unlike in countries where old-age insurance or government systems help the elders, in India the responsibility falls directly on children. This isn’t a criticism. It’s just the reality of our setup and the family dynamics weigh heavily on marriages.

If you look closely at Thalavan and Thalavi, the couple themselves never really had core issues. Their friction was initiated by the external world, then amplified into a ripple effect. The hotel business they ran only added another layer of stress, but the truth is, even without a business, many households in India face the same struggles such as ego clashes, generational differences, and power battles.

Most of the people struggle here. This reminds me of what I wrote about partner selection. Its not just being a “vibe check”, but about knowing yourself first. Because in our cultural context, a relationship is never just about two people in love. It’s about how strong their understanding is when dealing with unavoidable external challenges, especially family.

The parents in the movie (both sides), like in real life, cared deeply about their own children’s happiness, but failed to focus on the collective happiness of the couple. That imbalance naturally strains a marriage. And when couples break down under this pressure, the quickly solution suggested is divorce without realizing the source of the problem isn’t always the couple, but the external nuances around them.

Overall, Thalavan and Thalavi don’t give you a cinematic escape. They hand you a mirror. They remind us that interdependence with parents can be healthy, but letting them dictate a couple’s life can bring conflict too.

Give it a try, if you want to see a raw portrayal of marital realities. Available in Prime.

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Subjective Nature of Every Solution!

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Every book we read, every conversation we have, every podcast we listen to, each carries a story, a lesson, and a key. At first glance, these keys/solutions look universal. They promise to unlock the struggles that all of us, in one form or another face.

But here’s the catch! A key that works for one person doesn’t always fit another’s lock. Why? Because that key was shaped by their story, their circumstances, emotions, and perceptions.

On the surface, solutions often look similar. Wake up early, journal daily, eat healthy, invest consistently. These are the methodologies. But underneath, the variables shift. Our sleep cycle, our inner battles, our health conditions, our financial reality. And those variables mean the outcome is never identical.

This is why I fell in love with the word subjective in recent days. No single prescription fits all. There isn’t one shoe that everyone can wear without blisters. What works is taking the principle, plugging in your own variables, tweaking the method, and then testing it against your life.

In the end, wisdom isn’t about copying solutions, it’s about customizing them.

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Your Pen, Your Story!

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When the Industrial Revolution came, people blamed machines. When calculators came, they said we would forget math. When computers came, they said we would stop working with our hands. In reality, the ones who learned to use computers replaced the ones who didn’t.

We used all these to enhance our lives. Now with AI, the same cycle repeats. Yes, people will blame AI and using AI for killing creativity. Lose our voice. That’s not real.

As long as a writer can think clearly and articulate an idea based on their own lived experience, nothing will replace them. LLMs don’t have sensory organs to feel the rain, smell the dust after it, or taste that first cup of black coffee in the morning. They can’t know heartbreak or the weight of silence in a room. They can only remix descriptions of it. LLMs also don’t think like humans. We sometimes get confused, create the complexities.

And hopefully, consciousness can’t be programmed into them. We need stories and human experience to keep our sanity and feel alive.

AI can enhance our work, take us to places we’ve never gone. But if we let AI to write on a topic and publish it without the core us in it, there’s no authenticity. Sometimes, I publish it raw to let the thoughts out. For eg. Routine and drunk ink and sober edits. Work on what best for you and helps you bring out of best you.

We voice can move through an LLMs. But it can’t be born from one.

The pen’s still yours, the blank screen’s still judging, and AI is just makes the stuff glow.

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PS: LLM suggested: Authentically Yours: The Pen Is Still Yours

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Cycle Syncing, Our Missing Map!

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A while back, I wrote about resistance.

That post was about the invisible walls we hit, physically, mentally, and emotionally. But there was one form of resistance that didn’t make it in. The biological rhythm of the menstrual cycle. This post is focused on basic science, how our cycle affects energy, mood, and stress, and how we can work with it rather than against it.

While talking with a few friends, it became clear that many of us live through the cycle without fully understanding it. I have thought these chapters to kids yet I didn’t give attention to the hormones and energy associated with each phase.

Not in a biology textbook way, but in a way that connects daily energy, mood, focus, and decision-making to what’s happening hormonally. We notice the bad days and call it PMS. We notice the high-energy days and assume it’s random. But the pattern is real.

The menstrual cycle is roughly 28 days on average, but can range from 21 to 35 days depending upon individual body type. Variability is normal. It is a finely tuned hormonal cycle mainly between estrogen, follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone (LH) and progesterone. These aren’t just reproductive hormones. They influence brain chemistry, metabolism, muscle recovery, and even how social or risk-taking we feel. Yet I wander, how the crime rate of women is less. Maybe because they act like brakes? Lol! Jk!

The four phases,

Menstrual Phase (Day 1–5)

Ideal focus: Rest, gentle movement, reflection.
Hormones: Estrogen and progesterone are at their lowest.
Physiology: The uterine lining is shed. Inflammation markers rise.
Stress: Many feel more sensitive or drained during bleeding; this is common, but individual
Impact: Energy dips, many feel lower energy and more discomfort.

Follicular Phase (Day 6–13)

Hormones: Estrogen rises, FSH stimulates follicle growth.
Physiology: Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) increases supporting learning and memory.
Impact: Energy and motivation rise, mood stabilizes, creativity peaks.
Stress: Basal cortisol tends to be higher than in the luteal phase on average, but stress reactivity and recovery vary by person and task.
Ideal focus: Starting new projects, strength training, learning-intensive work.

Ovulation (Around Day 14)

Hormones: LH surges, triggering the release of an egg; estrogen peaks.
Physiology: Metabolism slightly increases, senses sharpen, social behavior heightens.
Impact: Confidence, verbal fluency, attraction, and social energy peak.
Stress: No consistent cortisol pattern is established here; some feel more alert or socially engaged.
Ideal focus: Networking, presentations, collaborative work.

Luteal Phase (Day 15–28)

Hormones: Progesterone rises to prepare the body for possible pregnancy; estrogen dips and then rises slightly.
Physiology: Body temperature rises slightly, recovery time may lengthen.
Impact: Energy is steady but slower; if stress (cortisol) is high, PMS symptoms appear mood dips, irritability, cravings.
Stress: Basal cortisol is generally lower than in the follicular phase. Some studies suggest greater stress reactivity for some people in late luteal, but findings are mixed. PMS/PMDD responses can differ.
Ideal focus: Wrapping up projects, detailed work, routines that comfort.

Objective cognitive-performance differences across phases are small or inconsistent and may vary with people. Emotional/stress-related shifts are more consistently especially late luteal are common.

When we ignore this rhythm and expect identical performance every day, it feels like pushing against an invisible wall. When we plan in sync with it, the same wall becomes easy for our to handle. It’s about removing friction and working with what the body is already doing.

Research, including podcast mentioned by Andrew Huberman, shows that even skin texture, immune response, and scent perception shift through these phases. I couldn’t recall the exact episode. I will attach it once I find. Even the episode on cycle syncing on Take 20 was good. Give it watch.

Instead of asking, Why is this a bad day? we can start asking, Which phase are we in? The answer often explains the mood, the energy, and even the craving for brownie at midnight.

Nature is not the obstacle and its hard to win against. She is the clock. And the more we read her, the less resistance we meet. Light late tho!

Cheers!

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Zen Garden, Kyoto

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Yesterday, I was watching The Bear. Richie was talking about a photo of a Zen garden (Ryōan-ji in Kyoto). One of his favorite director’s favorite places. Riche made me more on gut and vibrations too.

I went looking for the why. William Friedkin’s version came first. In one of his interview, he said that the stones are like people. We arrive alone, and we die alone. We are alone no matter surrounded by people.

Then the different interpretation started surfacing.

#Islands in a sea of raked gravel. The white lines are waves, the stones are land rising above them.

#Mountains in clouds. A bird’s-eye view of a distant world.

#A tiger carrying her cub across a stream. An old Japanese tale mapped in stone.

#Natural harmony. The placement shows balance without symmetry, the beauty of imperfection.

#Meditation itself. The emptiness is a deliberate removal of distraction. A place to just sit and be.

And then the one that wouldn’t let me go: incomplete truth.

No matter where you stand, you can never see all fifteen stones at once. One is always hidden. Not by accident but by design.

It’s a lesson that’s almost annoying in its simplicity. We will never see the whole picture. We will assume. We will fill in gaps. And those gaps will stay, no matter how far we shift your position. We tend to see things as we are, not as they are. Subjective always!

We’re all standing in our own corner of the world, convinced the view is complete and prefect while the missing stone waits, quietly, out of sight.

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The Art of Asking Questions!

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I’ve started to notice something lately. The same person can give completely different answers depending on who is asking the questions. It’s the way the questions are shaped.

Some questions are like keys. They open doors to deep, layered answers. The kind that you can’t fully understand at first. You have to sit with them, turn them over in your mind, decode what they really mean. These are not answers you just listen to/follow up. They’re answers you live with for a while.

Then there are questions that start simple and slowly climb higher. They build a bridge between everyday thinking and high-level thinking. Those questions make the other person explain their complex ideas in a way anyone can follow. It’s not just about getting the answer it’s about watching how they translate their thoughts for different minds.

Sometimes, the smartest way to ask is to make the problem universal. Not like, here’s my specific problem, what should I do? But, here’s a challenge that many people face, how would you solve it? This pulls the other person out of just giving you advice, and into sharing their own battle tested methods. And those methods are often more useful than a ready made solution.

But here’s the thing. We can’t force a conversation like this. When it’s interesting, it flows on its own. When you talk to someone who’s seen a lot, someone with high agency, the goal shouldn’t be to squeeze out one answer for one problem. It should be to understand how they see the world, how they connect the dots, how they think when there’s no ready answer in front of them.

Because once we learn how they think, we start solving problems we didn’t even know were coming.

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The Real Game!

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Every game has levels. And the strange yet thing is that, life also feels the same.

At Level 1, we are just figuring out the rules. We don’t know which feature does what, we don’t even know if we are holding the controller the right way. Every move feels like an experiment. This is the don’t mess up phase. Our first job, Our first relationship, first draft and more. All these are trial runs.

Then comes Level 50. we have played/iterated enough to know the shortcuts. The fear drops, the confidence pops up. We feel like we have got the hang of it. We teach or give out our learnt lessons to people. We might even start believing that we have cracked the code.

Somewhere around Level 70, we run into players who are really good. Suddenly the game we thought that we knew looks bigger, harder, and smarter than imagined. We will start seeing layers that never existed before. This is where the curve moves from I’m good to there’s so much more to learn.

Upon continuing the game anyway, lets say at level 150, we will stop trying to prove that we are the best. Somehow, we will accept that there’s always someone better, faster, sharper. We will start learn to respect the game itself. Slowing down, thinking deeper, and sometimes even smiling when we lose because we will know the loss is just another lesson.

The interesting part that I have observed is that, players at higher level can see us right through. They know the patterns before even a move is made. Players at same level see the other as competition, always measuring where they stand next in the metrics. And players at a much earlier stage might not even understand what the rules, games and players.

And just like life, the game has twists. There are unlocked hidden levels that we can’t see until played for years. Sometimes we have to switch games altogether. We could be Level 80 in one field and drop to Level 1 in another. Not everyone’s playing to win; some are just here for fun, some quit halfway, some doesn’t enter at all. Sometimes they choose to go back and play at Level 10 not because they can’t go higher, but without pressure.

The real goal isn’t to beat everyone or to reach the final level. The real game is staying in it long enough to enjoy it, to learn from it, and to play in a way that makes us want to continue it again tomorrow.

Because in the end, it’s not the number of wins that makes a master/winner. It’s understanding the game itself.

And then there are the rarest players. The ones who stop measuring, stop chasing, and simply become the game itself. They just are rooted in presence, untouched by noise, aware that even the game is temporary.

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Paranthu Poo (2025) Movie Review

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There’s something about Ram’s movies I keep returning to. It’s not about a big message, not always. It’s more like you walk out of it and there’s this light ache, a soft warm, something that sits in your chest.

Paranthu Poo did that too. The entire narrative revolves around one family. Not a big, complicated one. Just real, layered like us or the neighbor. And that’s the beauty of it. The characters aren’t written to be loud or clever just raw.

The pacing is kind of slow. Like the story knew it didn’t have to prove anything. It felt like you’re allowed to sit still and enjoy. The story revolves around a single family and navigates parenting, not from a preachy lens, but from a child’s point of view.

As someone who hasn’t entered the parenting phase yet, I don’t want to comment on modern parenting, but as a child someone who’s been on the receiving end, I could sense how clearly Ram has captured that emotion. The lens starts from Anbu, the kid, and slowly change his parents.

Anbu, who starts off as this slightly notorious boy, naturally grabs our attention in. He just feels real. Watching him reminded me of something I’ve been feeling lately and how hard it is to find new friends as you grow older. People my age are caught in work loops, family demands, and unpredictable life curves.

So when the film hinted at the absence of in-person friendships and boredom. One of the strongest parts of the movie was the contrast between the two families that Anbu interacts with. In one, there’s an old motorcycle, a modest restaurant, warm conservation between the parents, and a child who runs and plays freely.

In the other, there’s a sophisticated household with all the amenities from body massagers to the latest motorcycles, but very little open space, both literally and emotionally.

Anbu’s behavior in both settings is shown beautifully. In the first, he exchanges his skating board for a pambaram. In the second, he silently leaves a duck egg for the girl and learns how that girl brought a shift in the father’s behavior. There’s no black and white here, just a soft observation that the environment we grow up in subtly shapes us, and sometimes, a child teaches the adult, not the other way around.

The ending of the film made me smile, but in a peaceful one. Anbu chooses to stay in the countryside because he wants to be around people. That one choice says a lot. It reminded me that in between all the noise of progress and individualism, what we really need is human connection of loved ones. Or at the very least, nature.

That felt like the real takeaway for me, to not chase more, but to stay connected. I also really liked the communication between the couple, Gokul and Glory. Their relationship was shown and frequency of communication and softness that’s rare to see on screen. They literally back each other amidst the chaos. I’m not sure how easy it is to replicate that in real life, but I do know that such couples exist. Sunflower! lol, cute and matured conservations. The generous of glory and few scenes gives you warmth.

It was refreshing to see. If I had one small critique, it would be the songs. They felt slightly unnecessary. It’s available on JioCinema. It reminds of song that I was introduced to while watching Modern family. Its called Cats in the cradle. Song is little heavy tho. Pace yourself to hear.

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Strength that lasts!

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Not advice. Just an observation worth keeping in mind. Take it or leave it kind of post.

I was never aiming to build muscles. My usual routine was yoga and walks. But a few recent moments made me realize my triceps, biceps, even my right hand felt weak. Maybe from holding the mouse too long, maybe something else.

Around April, I started light with 2 kg to 4kg dumbbells , wall push-ups. But my protein intake wasn’t enough, and also, I was not giving my muscles proper recovery time. Things got worse, I couldn’t even hold my hand in certain positions. Shoulder pain started in.

At the same time, I was starting supplements (once in two weeks). It took me nearly two months to recover. This clicked when I heard my fav psychologist talk about it. I need a health habit I can do for life long.

I don’t know if I can go to the gym forever, but yoga and walking? probably, yes. If time and body allows, I’ll try to lift weights once or twice a week but without overdoing it. My intention is simple flexibility + strength.

Find what works for you, not just what they tell you.

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3BHK (2025) Movie Review

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It’s been a while since I wrote a movie review. This one just happened. The movie was playing at home. Not sure if it was my brother or mom who put it on because I was reading “The mediations”.

Spoiler alert: Watch before you read.

The film tries to cover almost 30 to 40 years of life in 2.5 hours. That’s a big stretch. The core message was there, but not kind of said straight. In India, “owning a house” is like a stamp of adulthood. Especially after 25, families expect it or they push towards it.

Before proceeding any further, lets understand the two sides of coin here

The family struggling to buy a home in the city. Every time they save, an emergency hits. That’s real. Renting means less freedom, annoying owners, noisy neighbors, and that constant instability.

On the flip, owning isn’t perfect either. You can’t expand easily, old houses eat up money in repairs, you pay taxes, and if you rent it out, you deal with tenants. The grass is always greener.

The debate on rent vs. buy is subjective. YT financial gurus might say rent and the family will say buy. Real estate developers will say buy now. In the end, it’s about one’s income, expenses, and peace of mind. Its always subjective.

One thing the movie made clear. If you hate your job and you have an long term loan, life feels like a trap. Paycheck to paycheck. I just hope viewers don’t get stuck on details on like his IT degree or her marriage story for getting a housing loan. At the end, the last stretch felt like an ad for Casagrand. Marketing always knows where to poke you emotionally.

The role of house head, elder son, middle class dynamics, unnoticed contribution of women to the savings, forced choices, uncertain situations, non physical violence were beautifully portrayed. Yet, I am furious on role of devayani. More dialogue could’ve been. I have grown up watching her in kadhal kottai, suriyavasam, kolangal. Idk!

In the end, the choice is yours to rent or buy, don’t get influenced. The movie is available at Amazon Prime

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Routine!

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I just want to get these thoughts out into space. Routines are good. It makes us more productive, stable and a sense of control over the things happening in a day. Obviously, health care routines makes our life healthier and better. These shape our life for good.

But the over the span, there are two possibilities that are likely to happen.

Monotonous & Boring: When those routines becomes so monotonous, we need some interesting refreshing, like we might need a vacation or trip or movie. TBH, when these routines are broken, we ate back to square one. We might need few days to months to bring ourselves back to the track.
New Chaos : When there are some surprising elements to our life, for example, new friend or a puppy/cat or partner or even new hobby where we have to spend some quite amount of time with them, the usual routine gets messed up. It takes time to adjust and adapt ourselves to the new or the combined routines.

So yeah, routines matter, so do breaks, breakdowns, breakthroughs. Its never this or that. It need both scenarios to keeps us alive.

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#DecodeAgri17: Who will grow the crops in a world obsessed with tech?

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This morning, I saw a cartoon from The New Yorker. The caption reads: “One day, son, this farmland will be yours to sell to a tech company building data centers.” Funny. But maybe not that far from reality.

Across the world, fiber cables are being laid, AI models are being trained, and server farms are expanding. Developed countries are busy building the backbone of the digital economy. Many of them import food often from the same developing countries now selling land to tech parks.

So here’s the question: If farms become servers, and developing nations can’t tech up fast enough, who’s going to grow our food?

In developed nations, tech powers agriculture. Smart irrigation, soil sensors, drones, and robotics help farmers produce more with less. Even if they import certain foods, their systems are tech backed and resilient.

But in many parts of the developing world, it’s a different story. Small farmers still run on 2G. Many don’t have access to smartphones, real-time data, or even reliable weather forecasts. We talk about AI in agri, but on ground it sounds more like: Can we get data on rainfed maize in a district? Sorry, we operate under 2G… still loading.

Let’s be clear. This isn’t a tech vs agri debate. That’s a false binary. The real question is, Why aren’t they working together?

We don’t have to pick between grain and gigabytes. Agri and tech should go hand in hand. Data centers need land. So do crops. It’s not about this or that. It’s about how and who.

The truth is the land used by solar parks and server farms is still minimal overall. Most of it is near metros or degraded zones. But if tech is rolled out without inclusion, then it becomes another land grab.

Countries like India need to lead with a middle path. One that invests in both digital infra and agricultural resilience. We can’t afford to choose between food and future. We need both. So, back to the question.
Who will grow crops in a world obsessed with tech?

The answer won’t come from code alone. It’ll come from policies that value land, systems that include the small farmers, and tech that doesn’t leave anyone buffering.

Because no matter how advanced we become, we still need to eat. Governance sits at the heart of this. Who owns land? Who makes decisions? Who benefits? That’s where we’ll go next.

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Just Start. Finish What You Start!

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These two phrases show up everywhere. From podcasts to Instagram captions to tweets to wallpapers to ted talks. They sound almost too simple, like generic advice someone throws in when they don’t know what else to say. But they hold more weight then we assume.

Starting looks easy from a distance. We can preach. But when it’s our turn, it hits different. The hesitation creeps in. Overthinking starts. Everything that could go wrong would crash our minds. The longer we wait, the heavier it gets.

Starting doesn’t need clarity. It needs motion or to be precise, action. One move. One line. One step. Starting requires something raw. The willingness to look stupid, to be misunderstood, to not know how it ends and still, to begin. That’s how we could break the loop. It’s not perfect. But it’s honest.

Then comes the real test, Sticking with it and then finishing it.

Finishing doesn’t come with energy drinks and hype songs. It comes with boredom, setbacks, self doubts, silence. It demands consistency without applause. Discipline when no one is watching.

That’s where the real self-trust is built. It’s about keeping your word to yourself. These two decisions to begin, and to follow through are something important and foundational.

Start. Then finish. Everything else is noise.

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Who will read the research papers?

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That question came to me suddenly yesterday as I was looking for journals to publish a research paper. Not as a critique. Not even as a complaint. More like a quiet hit. We live in a time where almost nobody including me reads the full paper anymore. Not the 30 pages of dense text, not the appendices, not even the abstract. We feed the PDF into LLMs, and it spits out exactly what we need. A summary. Key takeaways or outcomes. The time it takes to truly read something. Efficiently replaced.

It saves time. It gives access. We don’t need a PhD to understand something anymore. It teaches as if we are kids. Feynman saying, IYKYK. More tailored prompts are required. Mostly, LLMs are the first to reach a paper. It digest the content, chunk it, and deliver it clean and neat to the rest of us.

But then, Who are we writing for?

Because the old idea was simple. Publish, get cited, gain credibility, contribute to the field. But now, LLMs doesn’t care if your paper was published in Nature or some unknown journal. It doesn’t care about your impact factor or your h-index. It just reads. It pulls based on what’s relevant to the query.

Are we not writing for people, but for LLMs? I am not sure, whether we reached there yet. If that’s true, then the journal isn’t the final destination anymore. The model is.

LLMs are brilliant at summarizing. They are terrifyingly bad at connecting dots. But do they know when not to apply a finding? Does it understand the context? Do they know that a study on a small sample in a specific geography isn’t the applicable to all studies?

It is weird to notice that the research paper are evolving from a final product to a kind of raw material. So yeah. Who will read the research papers? Maybe no one. Maybe everyone. Or maybe just the machines. But some part of me still wonders what happens when no one reads the original anymore. Just layers of summaries, passed through models until the real voice gets lost.

Are we adding to a library, or just feeding a machine? Maybe both. Maybe that’s not as bad as it sounds. But someone should be asking, before we forget what it felt like to truly read.

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PS: Yet to submit & even the pronouns are blurring for LLMs.

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