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Curiosity leads you to the mountain. The mountains helps you see the view. This creates a new path which leads to unique and individual’s taste and thereby refining the authenticity. Taste is the accumulation of our specific curiosity applied and refined through experience over time.

It’s never the other way around. Authenticity might not be the starting point.

In the realm of AI, mimetic desires, the taste will be unique which will determine individual authenticity. Since no two people climb the same mountain the same way.

Curiosity → Mountain → View → Path → Taste → Authenticity

I am not sure where the society or the digital presence can lead you/us to. Yet the raw, unkempt, rational/irrational curiosity has to be kept alive. The specific view has to be trusted from the specific path. It will show something worth following. The dots will connect even if it’s not validated or optimized.

Taste is individual. Curiosity is individual. Authenticity can’t be reverse engineered from the destination.

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Since 2025, I have become a firm believer in systems and patterns. My goal is to break to worst patterns (which doesn’t let me be in peace) and trying to make and keep the best ones.

Building habits by designing the environment and also creating systems around the life that one can sustain is crucial. I did few. Somewhere along the way, I thought that if the system is set up, it should run smoothly forever. No chaos, leaks nor even glitches.

Life isn’t fair and obviously not a perfect machine. It is more like plumbing and wiring. There are always leaks. The real hard work is finding them and sealing them.

I have trying to have conversations with people, trying to understand how their system work and how they seal. Even tried with AI. Yet nothing clicked. Since everyone life is unique and subjective.

Then yesterday, while searching for something else, I got some clarity on this. Systems can’t be fixed in a day or can be forced. The best way is to observe the patterns, shape, nature of the leak or the error to find the leverage point.

Find the rules. Find the pattern and the look for the one small change that makes everything else easier. Sometimes, the best way to understand is to play with it and observe how it reacts, rather than trying to fix it immediately.

The blog also spoke about Donella Meadow’s 12 leverage points in system thinking. Transcending paradigms was the highest one. It is the shift from “This is how it has to be” to “This is just one way I have chosen to look at it”. For example, my body is a perfect machine to do the chores to my body is a vessel for something larger to carry the soul/purpose.

Some kind of Zen or monk madness is required to rise above and realize that even when one is at eye of the system that needs to be analyzed.

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In the recent days, my friend and I have discussing on how AI is replacing software engineers based on the current tweets. Usually, it would be laughter and lighter talks. This time it felt different and heavy. Maybe more real? This shock slapped after anthropic CEO made a statements and the following tweets on it.

But the reality is that AI creeps in all slices of life. It isn’t just in tech. It reminds me a picture/meme usually done to imitate the working nature of a women with n number of hands.

#Professional Creep.

In the jobs/professional space, it helps to automate, personalise the mails, documents, sheets, presentattions, articles, reviews and solving big complex issues and thereby saving time. On paper, this is great. Faster output, less friction and more efficiency. Humans have always optimized for efficiency. When we save time, does it help us in stay in the Zen mode or simply fill that space with more expectation, deliverables and more noise? Not sure tho.

More importantly, if AI does the grunt work, do we lose the satisfaction of completion? The pride of craft? No idea on the effects of it on the behavior.!!!

#Beyond the Office

Apart from tech, it’s the same story in most of the domains. Robotics in farming. AI-led weeding. Sensors monitoring soil, fields and cattle grazing (Lol, Aadu maadu kuda meika mudiyathu pola! JK). Yield predictions. Precision agriculture. It has quietly taken away the learning curve of handling relationship with unknown factors, complexity, articulation, thinking and costing our presence even in the physical world. Maybe we will have our digital avatars in the future? Lol!

#Two Divisions

People usually fall into two groups. Optimism and pessimism.

Optimistic people says that AI removes these mundane tasks and leave us with more time in solving the bigger problems.

The pessimists sees the mass unemployment, cascading effects on future, livelihood, health, economy and the purpose.

#What we are losing

There is subtle and gradual feel of how AI occupies the space in our day to day activities. These tools aren’t threat to us physically. For eg, writing assistant, image generator, emotional regulators, health assistants, sensors, tech agents. Most of them are reshaping.

When it does all the work, what will be doing? What about the muscle work like articulation, thinking and more ? Whether the leisure will be pleasure or anxiety?

#Where I stand

I don’t have a clean answer tbh. I am conflicted as I stay updated with these news and information. Its happening so fast that the effects are hard to predict. Can we control this? No. Maybe it’s a tsunami wave? Debating whether AI is good or bad is like asking if the revolution should have happened? But are we not past that question. We’re in the eye of it.

The real question isn’t whether to resist or accept or embrace, but how to stay afloat/alive. Learning to work with these tools, understanding what they can and can’t do, finding the spaces for ourselves where human judgment still matters. Maybe that’s the leverage.

But here’s the uncomfortable part! Plot twist!

Even that might be temporary. The goalpost keeps moving. What feels like leverage today might be automated tomorrow. Who knows!

So maybe the answer is learning to be comfortable with the discomfort. Staying adaptable. Delulu is the solulu. :P

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Yesterday I watched this wtf podcast with Ray Dalio (Do watch it!). It wasn’t about his mantra on picking stocks or becoming a smarter investor. It was more like quiet life advice.

Find what pulls you. Play the game. Talk to/spend time with people who are already in the game. That’s all.

And somehow, this applies to almost everything in our lifes. Be it career, investing, learning, even hobbies. (Disclaimer: Not talking about marriage, dating, or murder. The consequences there are slightly heavier and nasty. Let’s keep this advice in the safe experimentation zone.)

Now I feel a small pull to revisit the game theory or micro economics. Not out of pressure. Maybe I am spending lot of time in farming and plant protection studies rather than the core.

Enter the game, observe honestly both the rulers and players, and decide whether it works for you or not.

Because only when you play the game, you know whether you like the game. Everything else is just a drag.

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Not every lesson in life comes with a syllabus or a heads up or even context. The stages of life may look predictable, but the lessons are uncertain.

Some phases of life feel green and gentle while some make you bleed without warning. One such lesson is knowing whom to close a deal with. And I’m not talking about negotiation skills but about the people.

The kind you sign contracts with or trust with work or stay emotionally invested in. There’s no good or bad people here, just capability. The ability to see moves you don’t and to shape outcomes you think you’re choosing.

It is quite hard to play games with people who know exactly what they want or who think in game theory. They play chess while you’re still learning the rules. Logan Roy types. They predict, position, and close the deal.

Then, what is the safest option here?

Don’t play with them at all. But if you wish/choose to learn, then play consciously. Only after building enough backup to survive the fall that usually follows down the line.

Not every game shows itself before you sit at the table! Fair enough right? Lol

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PS: an update to the previous post, there is no android version!

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I’m not entirely sure if a change in the calendar actually changes anything. I mean, the world doesn’t reset just because the clock moves from 11:59 to 12:00. Bills remain same and unpaid. Habits don’t improve magically. People don’t suddenly become emotionally available.

But what does change quietly is perspective. I recently saw this Life Calendar app (sadly, not available on Android). It shows your life in days. Tiny boxes. It’s about how many days you have left to waste. Or to make it productive.

Seeing fewer boxes left is scary, yes. But it also does something useful, it creates urgency. Not panic. Urgency. The kind that nudges you to stop postponing conversations, decisions, and potential version of yourself you keep saying you’ll get to someday.

And no, I don’t believe life transforms the moment 9 becomes 0 on the clock. Real change is messy. It takes months of showing up poorly before showing up better. It takes repetition. It’s running twice, then not running for three weeks, then trying again. Small course corrections.

Ironically, endless scrolling something we love to hate offered an antidote too. Somewhere between the noise, I came across Tim’s decision tree. A simple reminder! There isn’t just one path. There are many. You’re just choosing.

One more thing that’s different this year. AI! This one that helps you to feel a little less alone when you’re thinking out loud, planning again, starting again. So I’ll end with the best thing I read on LinkedIn today and honestly, the most practical blessing for the year ahead!

May your Wi-Fi be stable and your AI prompts be accurate this year!

Amen to that. May you stop waiting for perfect timing. May you reach out. May you count your days and then do something with them. Happy 2026!

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PS: Should I reach out to Life calendar for android version?

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Most of our life is not decided by big choices. It is decided by what we keep running on default settings. Default occupies our majority of decisions because they demand no effort to continue.

What is not questioned continues. What continues becomes permanent. We assume that energy is lost in making a different choices rather than defaults. In reality, it is lost in staying inside decisions never made.

Understanding a pattern around a particular thing/event/decision does not change the output. Only conclusion does. When no conclusion is made, the default concludes on its own.

Life does not drift accidentally. It drifts precisely where clarity is delayed.

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I’ve been watching Silicon Valley lately. No! I’m not a coder. No, I don’t fully understand compression algorithms. I understand maybe 20 % of what they’re talking about the tech.

I’m at the final season now (yet to start), and what kept me going wasn’t the decentralized, open internet or the jargons. It was how often they pivoted. Everything kept revolving around that one compression algorithm, but what they built around it kept changing. Chat, platform and coin.

From the outside, it looks chaotic. Almost impulsive. People love saying, You have to move fast. Speed matters. Be it, startup, business, even life.

But here’s the part we conveniently skip. Fast decisions are not about courage and clarity alone. They’re about systems.

You can’t pivot if one wrong move breaks you. You need some cushion such as money, people, mindset, or at least the ability to sit with discomfort without spiraling. Richard had his team.

Uncertainty is always there. That’s a given.

But the more you’re exposed, the more reps you’ve done, the less scary decisions feel. You don’t become fearless. You become used to it. Palagirum! A little more grounded. A little more practical. Even calculative.

You stop waiting to feel ready. You just move, knowing you’ll figure it out later.

Maybe that’s what agency is.

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When I was younger, I used to read The Secret. I think it was gifted to my mom. I didn’t really understand the concept in detail, yet I understood something. Or at least I thought I did.

The logic I picked up was simple. If you think about something hard enough, it will happen. I took that idea very seriously. Maybe too seriously. I remember looking at the ceiling fan and thinking, what if it falls on my head? And then panicking about having such thoughts. That was my level of understanding.

Then life happened, as it usually does. Somewhere along the way, I stopped believing that any of my wishful thinking could/would happen at all. Cooked me to the core.

Earlier this year, just after New Year, a friend and I were talking about vision boards. I didn’t know much about them, but I wanted to try. Not because I believed in the process, but because it looked nice and aesthetic.

I wanted Pinterest vibes near my work place. No plan. No structure. No strategy. Just pictures of things I thought I wanted, Thailand, lifting weights, a certain version of life, quotes and bla bla. No deadlines. No numbers. I stuck it near my workspace so I could look at it whenever I felt stuck or bored.

Somehow, I managed to achieve most of it. Some things didn’t happen. Some things, I actively let go of (down the line, I lost the interest on those things).

And then came the uncomfortable realization. There were things on that board I didn’t even like. They weren’t desires, they were references. Borrowed wants. Mimetic desires. Maybe from IG.

Still, the board worked. It did nudge me to an extend. It made me notice what I was moving towards and what I was avoiding.

So this year, my vision board is changing. It’s going to be clearer. Less aesthetic, more honest. With deadlines and numbers. With room for clarity and a few delusional ones (I’m not ready to give up yet).

Not because I think everything I imagine will happen. But because direction helps more than blind hope. Let’s see. Worst case, I learn. Again

Give it try!

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PS: VB stays btwn me and my delusions :P

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The movies have taken a backseat lately because books and series keep stealing my free time. But this one, I genuinely wanted to watch when it released. And I’m glad I finally did.

The story revolves around the protagonist, Bhooma. I won’t go into details, because the heart of this film is its message: your life choices should be yours. Whether you get married or stay single like in Mona Lisa Smile, it should never be a decision forced or defaulted by society.

The film is framed through two perspectives. The couple story and upbringing side. And that’s what makes it interesting. Neither of them is inherently wrong if you look keenly. Reviews are everywhere for the former part.

Vikram grew up watching his father treat his mother like someone who must serve, so he believes protecting and leading is his duty, and following is hers.

And it’s nice how the movie uses the reference of mothers to show the root conditioning. Be it here, or Lover or Bad Girl as a reference.

Bhooma, on the other hand, has never truly had the freedom to choose. Her father’s sacrifices were actually more of emotional manipulation. She learned to fear that asserting her voice might cost her the only support she had (both child & adulthood).

if the same story had revolved around someone like Durga, would the audience have accepted it? Probably not. Our conditioning demands that a woman must first be obedient, quiet, good and then only gradually evolve into assertive. Strength is only admired when it comes from suffering. If a woman starts strong from the beginning, she becomes a threat not a heroine. Similar to Badgirl maybe?

The climax was believable and well-written. Because in real life, many people cannot handle a simple no. Some respond even worse than Vikram did here.

The reference to Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own was a sharp touch. A reminder that without awareness and space to think, we don’t realize how we are shaping others… or being shaped by them.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

Bhooma wakes up at the right moment. Some do later. Some never do.

Of course, Rashmika deserves credit! She makes us feel every layer of the character’s silence, fear, and fight.

Give it a try. Available in Netflix!

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Every December, apps try to remind us who we are.

Spotify Wrapped, YouTube recap (soon GPT, lol) in colorful designs saying “This is your year.” But forget the confetti… and it’s basically a well-curated report card of our habits. A reminder that once you own a smartphone, privacy becomes a joke.

Still… I can’t deny one thing. It show where the time actually went. Because life isn’t one straight line. We start the year with a big plan or bucket list and then something or life drags us sideways. Be it work, health heartbreak, random chaos. By the time we look up, the year is gone. And we’re left wondering, Did I grow? Or did I just survive?

These are the part the apps don’t track. That’s where self-metrics matter. But tiny reflections, honest ones. For eg. Did I stay true to myself? or Did I break fewer times than last year? or Getting better at managing things?

Just awareness. Awareness is both annoying and incredible. It exposes our repeated mistakes, patterns and more. But it also shows how far we’ve crawled even when life keeps fumbling us!

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