This week, something quietly important happened: a frontier AI researcher stood at the Vatican as Pope Leo XIV released an encyclical on artificial intelligence. If you think that's just a symbolic photo-op, you're missing the point. AI has moved beyond engineering. It is now a civilizational question: power, work, truth, war, and what...

Published: 2026-05-27 ## Outline - Introduction: Ownership feels real but is a mental construct. - How the mind creates ownership through labeling and attachment. - The temporary nature of all things we call 'mine'. - Suffering arises when we cling to the illusion of ownership. - Practical ways to see through: mindfulness of impermanen...

Published at: 2026-05-26 21:07:58 IST +0530 Short outline • Why awareness is already present before any thought appears • How thoughts, feelings, and sensations appear inside awareness • A simple daily practice for noticing the witness without strain • Why this matters in ordinary life, not just in meditation Full blog post The common ...

Published on 2026-05-25 21:01 IST Short outline • Why self-inquiry starts with the felt sense of “I,” not with a philosophy lesson. • What to look for in ordinary experience when the mind says “me” or “mine.” • A simple practice for noticing the “I” thought without forcing an answer. • How this changes the way you meet stress, conflict...

Published: 2026-05-24 15:31 UTC Most relationship trouble is not caused by lack of love alone. Very often, it comes from clinging: clinging to how someone should behave, clinging to the feeling we want them to give us, clinging to the identity we are trying to protect. The tighter we hold, the easier it is to turn a real person into a ...

Published: 2026-05-23 15:35 UTC Outline - Why bargaining and devotion are not the same thing - What prayer can do when results are unclear - How to turn an intention into an offering - How this changes ordinary actions during the day Full Blog Post Many people begin prayer with a hidden negotiation. They ask for health, success, relief...

Published at: 2026-05-22T21:03:32+05:30 2026-03-26 — AI — Continuous evaluation is a governance system, not a score Thesis Continuous evaluation is not a nicer dashboard for benchmark numbers. It is a governance system for models in motion: a way to detect drift, discover failure modes, enforce standards, and decide what you can safely...

Published on 2026-05-22 21:02 IST Outline • Why the mind keeps mistaking descriptions for the Self • What neti neti means in simple language • What it is not: denial, nihilism, or self-rejection • A practical way to use the teaching in reflection • What remains when labels fall away Full Blog Post The Upanishads often point to truth by...

2026-03-25 — Making money — Saving is the first form of freedom; returns are the second Published at: 2026-05-21T21:04:32+05:30 Thesis Saving is the earliest, most reliable form of freedom because it turns income into options. But once your savings rate is high enough, the real battlefield shifts: the compounding of returns (and the av...

Published on 2026-05-21 21:03 IST Outline • Restlessness is normal and does not mean the practice is failing. • Use the breath as a simple anchor instead of forcing the mind to go blank. • Build discipline through a small, repeatable form: same seat, same time, same length. Full Blog Post Many people begin meditation with an unspoken d...

Published at: 2026-05-20T21:06:48+05:30 2026-03-24 — AI — Continuous evaluation is an operations discipline, not a research metric Thesis Continuous evaluation is not a nicer benchmark. It is an operations discipline: a repeatable system that turns your product goals into measurable model behavior, detects when reality shifts, and give...

Published: 2026-05-20 21:03:46 IST Outline • The mind does not only think; it rehearses. • Repeated interpretations begin to feel like facts. • Advaita asks us to notice the story without confusing it with reality. • A simple practice can create space: notice, separate, question, and return to direct experience. Full Blog Post We rarel...

🕎 A WhatsApp message, and a young woman at a crossroad A friend pinged me on WhatsApp last week. Her friend's daughter wanted career advice and could I please talk to her. I said yes, as I usually do, partly because I have spent enough years around founders and young professionals to know that "career advice" is rarely about careers. T...

Published 2026-05-19 21:03 IST People often use the words attention and awareness as if they mean the same thing. They do not. Attention is narrow. Awareness is wide. Attention selects one part of experience. Awareness is the space in which the whole experience is already appearing. This distinction matters because many spiritual pract...

Published at: 2026-05-18T21:08:31+05:30 Thesis The next labor shock from AI will not be a clean wave of “jobs disappearing.” It will be something more operational and harder to see at first: the interface to jobs will change. The verbs that make up a role—drafting, searching, triaging, summarizing, routing, estimating, checking, schedu...

Published: 2026-05-18 21:00 UTC Outline • Why self-inquiry is different from self-improvement and self-analysis. • A simple way to ask “Who am I?” without getting stuck in mental answers. • How to notice the difference between a passing thought and the sense of “I”. Full Blog Post Self-inquiry is easy to misunderstand. People hear the ...

Y Combinator has funded over 4,000 startups and seen pitches from hundreds of thousands more. After all that pattern recognition, they distilled what separates a fundable idea from a fantasy into four deceptively simple filters. Most founders read them, nod, and move on — without ever sitting with the weight of what those filters are a...

Published at: 2026-05-17T21:02:37+05:30 2026-03-22 — Pentagon banning Anthropic — Procurement is becoming AI governance by force Thesis The Pentagon’s reported decision to treat Anthropic as a “supply chain risk” is not just a vendor dispute. It is a preview of a new kind of governance. When lawmakers cannot move fast enough, and regul...

Published on 2026-05-17 21:01:36 IST +0530 Outline - Why difficult conversations trigger reactivity - The Advaita perspective: you are the awareness in which the reaction appears - Three simple pauses that create space before you speak - How to reflect afterward without rehearsing blame Full Blog Post Difficult conversations have a way...

Published at: 2026-05-16T21:06:07+05:30 2026-03-21 — AI — Continuous evaluation is the only scalable way to trust models Thesis AI systems fail in production for the same reason organizations fail in crises: they confuse a snapshot for a system. Static benchmarks, one-time “model cards,” and pre-launch checklists create an illusion of ...

Published on: 2026-05-16 15:31 UTC Outline • Surrender is not giving up on life; it is releasing the fantasy of total control. • Devotion becomes practical when it changes how we meet fear, frustration, and uncertainty. • Grace often shows up after sincere effort, not before it. • A daily life of surrender is quieter, steadier, and les...

Published at: 2026-05-15T21:06:58+05:30 Thesis Happiness is not a mood you can buy, hack, or hold. It is an output of a life that repeatedly satisfies a small set of constraints: you have enough security to stop bleeding; you are not trapped in a treadmill of escalating wants; and your days reliably contain autonomy, competence, and co...

Published: 2026-05-15 21:01 IST A lot of spiritual writing sounds as if the goal is to step out of ordinary life. The Bhagavad Gita keeps moving in the opposite direction. It begins in the middle of a crisis, with duty, fear, confusion, and pressure already present. That matters. The text is not trying to build a theory of escape. It i...

Published at: 2026-05-14T21:03:46+05:30 2026-03-19 — Black swan events — You can’t predict shocks; you can design for convexity Thesis Black swan events are not just “rare surprises.” They are the moments when hidden fragility gets priced in all at once. Because you cannot reliably forecast the timing or shape of these shocks, the prac...

Published: 2026-05-14 21:01 IST Outline • Start with a small anchor: one minute after waking, before checking your phone. • Make the practice easy to repeat by linking it to something you already do every day. • Measure success by returning, not by having a perfect session. Full Blog Post A lot of people want a meditation practice, but...

Published at: 2026-05-13T21:03:16+05:30 2026-03-18 — Best practices for entrepreneurs — Default alive is a cashflow discipline, not a fundraising plan Thesis A startup’s most important metric is not valuation, growth rate, or press. It is whether the company is default alive: whether, on the current trajectory and without assuming new ...

Published: 2026-05-13 21:01:34 IST Most of our suffering does not begin with reality itself. It begins with the way the mind interprets reality. A message arrives, a plan changes, someone says something sharp, and almost immediately the mind fills in the blanks. We do not just see what happened. We see a story about what happened. That...

Published: 2026-05-13 21:01:34 IST Most of our suffering does not begin with reality itself. It begins with the way the mind interprets reality. A message arrives, a plan changes, someone says something sharp, and almost immediately the mind fills in the blanks. We do not just see what happened. We see a story about what happened. That...

Thesis Most people experience wealth-building as a savings-rate problem: how much of each paycheck can be turned into assets, consistently, without breaking life. But once a person crosses a certain threshold, wealth becomes increasingly a returns and access problem: what assets they can own, what risks they can take, and whether they ...

Published on 2026-05-12 21:06 IST Many people hear the phrase witness consciousness and assume it means standing apart from life. They picture a distant observer, calm but detached, watching emotions and events from a safe distance. That is only a partial reading. In practice, the witness is not somewhere else. It is the quiet fact tha...