Compound Habits Across Career Stages
Shows how fragmented attention and shallow work early in a career create compounding costs, while small habits of depth build skill and optionality that shape later career stages and family life.
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What AI Makes Cheap
Generative AI lowers the cost of writing, coding, translating, designing, tutoring, and many knowledge tasks. This article maps what is becoming cheap, what India is building, and why the payoff depends on whether reclaimed attention flows into learning or back into extraction.
The Worker's Garden: Commutes, Side Projects, and Career Capital
Practical strategies for working adults to reclaim commute and downtime for small acts of learning and creation.
The Engagement Gap
Examines Gallup engagement data, workplace distraction research, and Indian graduate-employability figures to show how attention extraction affects productivity and the country's demographic dividend.
The Compounding Bet
Reframes India's AI opportunity as a compounding function of attention. Uses Gallup, NASSCOM, and public AI-readiness data to show how small shifts in daily learning, work, and creation habits could aggregate into large differences in national capacity over the next decade.
Historical Analogies of Missed Transitions
Uses cross-country historical comparisons to show that missing a technology transition has persistent economic and geopolitical consequences.
Your Phone Is a Power Tool. You're Using It as a Toy.
A standalone essay on how entertainment-driven screen use is wasting the most precious resource you have — your own attention — and how the same device, used differently, could make you more capable with less effort than you think.
The Substance Builder: How to Turn Dead Time into Small Acts of Creation
Building substance is not about dramatic discipline or quitting the internet. It is about redirecting small windows of attention toward creation, learning, and teaching, using AI to lower the activation energy of starting.