Notes
A collection of reflections, philosophical inquiries, technical articles, product updates, essays and some occasional personal sharing.
In the age of AI, a creation no longer guarantees anything about its creator. On the three roles of human expression, the trust it has always carried, and what breaks when output is decoupled from inner formation.
A reflection on the simple philosophy of Feel Good. Do Good, and how acting from nourishment, kindness, compassion, and Shantam changes the quality of service.
A three-point diagnostic framework covering Blindspot, Lack of Practice, and Resistance, for understanding why self-reflection feels so hard, and what each stage needs to move through.
Introducing Stream: a conscious space to process thoughts before taking action. Learn how we're separating reflection from execution to bring clarity back to productivity.
Introducing Flow: a conscious space to process thoughts before taking action. Learn how we're separating reflection from execution to bring clarity back to productivity.
Version 2.1 brings a new layer of intelligence and sensitivity (the Seven Dimensions of Awareness and Action) to help you see your life as a living system.
From the very beginning, Dhāraṇā was never meant to be another fancy app that tells you to do more. It was meant to help you be more: more conscious, more aligned, more whole.
Subbu and Shankar try to fix their time management with ChatGPT, and stumble into an infinite spiral of gratitude, learning that real change needs more than AI-generated advice.
Human writing still matters when AI is more fluent: it clarifies thought, builds skill, and connects us. Over-relying on ChatGPT produces fluent rubbish that quietly dulls our thinking.
My ElixirConf EU 2023 keynote in Lisbon, on using Elixir and Phoenix to run the software that keeps a city's everyday services alive.
Transparency surfaces hidden problems. How we hold them, with safe space, empathy, and a stigma-free spirit, decides whether a community grows in trust or fears transparency.
What open source taught me about transparency: why selective sharing only gives a false sense of safety, and why an open system is the more secure (and more transformative) one.
A personal reflection on holding love for every side of the conflict within the Auroville community.
Notes from sessions with my mentor Empty Boat, on perception, the states and beliefs that colour it, and a 42-day practice for changing what we feel from.
Free and gift are not the same. Three lenses (the giver's intention, how the cost is offset, and the receiver's responsibility) for telling them apart.
On bringing the spirit of gift into my work in Auroville: the resistances it meets, and a call to others still inspired by A Dream.
On Vivekananda's 'first learn to be a servant', the filters it quietly built in me, and the ServantMaster that asked me to learn all I had ignored.