Thoughts

There comes a point when doing more is no longer the answer. You can fill your calendar. You can keep working. You can respond to every message, attend every meeting, solve every problem, and still feel that something is missing. What may be missing is space . Space to think. Space to read. Space to understand. Space to ask whether the things we are doing actually matter. That is where I find myself right now. I don't think I need to stop working. I don't want to stop learning or creating. I want to keep getting better. I want to become a better engineer, a better thinker, and eventually a better leader. But I also need to slow down. I recently started thinking about The Inner Game of Work again, because the idea feels particularly relevant right now. The outer game is about getting things done. The inner game is about understanding what is happening inside us while we do them. And perhaps the next stage of growth is learning to play both games. Stop Reacting One thing I have ...

Every time, I am lost, confused, and need an idea of where to go in life, I turn to one book and that is Shrimad Bhagavad Gita. I am quoting a paragraph that I learned from it, "He who remains serene in Cold and heat, pleasure and pain, honour and dishonour, for such a self-controlled man the Supreme self is properly established, that is, present in the form of the Self. The Yogi who is content with knowledge and wisdom, who is free from perturbation and has conquered the senses, to whom clay, stone and gold are alike, he is said to be united with the Supreme.....", further more it goes on to say, "He who has the same regard for friend, companion, enemy, the indifferent, the mediator, the hostile, and kinsmen, as well as for the righteous and for the sinful, he is the best". Beautiful.... the book teaches so much beyond self control. It teaches us about regarding everyone alike. Whether that's your manager or whether that's your colleague. Everyone should be...

 Here I am writing again. I was a bit tired today and watching sports is also quite not the best thing that I should be doing. I know for a fact that in today's world a lot of things can take our attention away but it's okay. It's okay for the attention to go away if it comes back. Today, I am trying to think what to write. I wanted to talk about how insecurity and attention really matters. For an example, when I was doing nothing today, I was just feeling insecure. Insecure of the way I look, insecure of the way I dressed, insecure just in general for no reason. We all have insecurities, sometimes about our body, sometimes about our dressing sense, sometimes about acnes, sometimes some other fragile things in ourselves.  I want to tell you the reader, that you know what, it's okay to be insecure. It's okay to feel insecure of yourself. In today's generation there are many ways to numb your insecurities, through youtube, through netflix, through scrolling instag...

 I usually have thoughts that I get after pickleball. We started playing pickleball with a group of friends and as we were playing with a few folks, I realized that I was becoming a bit too self conscious about the way I was hitting the ball. I was worried if the ball goes out, I was worried if the ball goes towards the net. But well, as things started, I also think that my body was not warmed up during teh time. But once I started hitting one shot and it went out, we were pretty much okay. We were like okay, that can be out, but we need to be okay with hitting that shot out. Sometimes we might also get a point through that. I removed my fear of failure by actually failing. That brought me to the conclusion that in order to win either in pickleball and in life, we need to remove our fear of failure. The voice inside our head that tells us we are not good enough. You know what you are already good enough. The fact that you learned to walk and crawl by yourself through the simple pro...

 The One-Hour Rule I opened a hard problem on my laptop: a data pipeline that kept dropping records under load. I stared at it for a few minutes, then reached for my phone. One notification became a scroll through social media. When I came back to the laptop, the problem felt unfamiliar again. I reread the same notes, felt the resistance, and closed the screen before anything real happened. Nothing dramatic had gone wrong. I had simply watched a slow leak of attention drain my focus, the same way I have watched it drain a hundred times before. That pattern led me to the one-hour rule: I choose one thing and sit with it for a protected hour. No phone beside the laptop. No switching to an easier task when the work becomes uncomfortable. No pretending that checking messages is part of solving the problem. The hour is small enough to begin, but long enough to get beneath the surface. At first, I treated the rule as a productivity technique. Over time, it became something more. The hour...

 One of the greatest challenges of modern life isn't a lack of intelligence or opportunity. It's the constant battle for our attention. Every day we are surrounded by distractions designed to hijack our minds. Social media, endless scrolling, short-form videos, notifications—they all compete for one thing: our attention. And one of the strongest forces they exploit is lust. The Bhagavad Gita describes lust as one of the greatest enemies of human growth. Left unchecked, it clouds judgment, weakens discipline, and gradually pulls us away from our purpose. But this raises an important question. Is desire itself the problem? Not necessarily. Desire is part of being human. The desire to build relationships, create a family, and connect with others is natural. The problem begins when desire becomes detached from purpose—when it exists simply to stimulate us without adding anything meaningful to our lives. Modern technology understands this exceptionally well. Many platforms have lear...