Books, plays and a training plan — November 2025
- Issue
- November 2025
- In numbers
- 2 books, 6 short posts
Dear reader,
No race this month — November was a month for reading and building instead.
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt put words to something I had been circling for a while, and Careless People was open on the desk by the end of the month. A few months earlier I had deleted my social media accounts; a short post this month looked back at what that changed.
A short post on a Vijay Tendulkar play at Balgandharva — his plays always hold up a mirror to the society watching them. At the AI Study Group I showed Get Me My Training Plan!, a small tool I built for training plans, and I picked up the Bharat AI Enthusiast certificate along the way.
And this site grew a Now page, with a profile on nownownow.com. It was the first place I wrote down, month by month, what I was actually doing — the page this newsletter eventually grew out of.
Treks & outings
On the shelf
- The Anxious Generation — Jonathan Haidt
- Careless People (in progress) — Sarah Wynn-Williams
Short posts
- #1356 विजय तेंडुलकरांची नाटके तशी समाजाला आरसा दाखवणारी असतात. तब्बल २५ वर्षांनंतर पुण्यात बालगंधर्व मध्ये सयाजी शिंदेंनी साकारलेले ही कलाकृती; अगदी २ तासात, समाजातील विविध स्तर इतक्या तरलतेने रंगमंचावर आणि मनाच्या पटलावर असे उमटतात की मन भारावून जाते. सखाराम तसा साधा माणूस पण व्यवस्थेविरुद्ध, समाजाविरुद्द ठाम उभे राहण्याची त्याची वृत्ती वाखाणण्याजोगी नक्कीच आहे. व्यक्ती, प्रवृत्ती, देव, लग्न, समाज, स्त्री अशा विविध पैलूंवर प्रकाश टाकत परिस्थिनुरूप बदलणारी माणसे; सखाराम, चंपा, लक्ष्मी यांच्या माध्यमातून बदलणाऱ्या भूमिका; आणि बरंच काही सांगणारी ही कलाकृती! कोसला वाचताना खंडेराव बनून बघण्याची जशी दृष्टी मिळते, तसेच सखाराम प्रमाणे प्रामाणिकपणे जगणाऱ्या व्यक्तीच्या आयुष्यात आलेली वादळे पाहून, आपल्याभोवती अशी वादळे असतील काय असा प्रश्न पडतो! ही गोष्ट लक्ष्मी आणि चंपा यांची पण आहे, व्यवस्थेच्या बळी ठरलेल्या २ स्त्रिया व त्यांच्या आयुष्याचे अंतरंग पाहून, संवेदनशील मन अशा भावनांचा कदाचित विचार करण्यास तरी नक्कीच सुरुवात करेल. थोडक्यात, मानवी भाव भावनांना गुंफून एक गुंतागुंतीचे आयुष्य त्रयस्थपणे बघत त्याचे वेगवेगळे पैलू उलगडत आत्म–परीक्षण करण्याची संधी हे नाटक नक्की देते! संधी मिळाल्यास नक्की पाहा! #02:11:2025::02:18:am
- #1357 Visually trying to imagine the outcome of the choices we make often helps to weigh the pros, cons of something.✨ More one wanders around in different circles of life, more realistic stuff one imagines.🤠 The important thing here is the patience and faith in the process to continue to do stuff, as sometimes one stumbles on the lone journey.💫 The onus and responsibility of decisions often burdens the soul, that’s where the game of determination, persistence begins!🌱 One who fights this battle rigorously, chooses to stand apart in the rat race!🧘♂️ #TheLivesOfDigitalMonks #05:11:2025::12:25:am
- #1358 #ThePuzzlesOfClutteredLives🌱 Overall it seems I am trying to frame the perfect puzzle with varying pieces in it.🧩 May it be nurturing the ones from the past, being in the moment with those in the present and looking out for some things from the future!✨ Be it reading books, running marathons, learning stuff, being curious, meeting new interesting people, daily adequate sleep, and much more; puzzling to fit all this in the window of 24 hours while traversing through the valleys of physical, mental, emotional cycles.🤠 Over the time, when looked upon, the picture seems cluttered, interesting, incomplete all at the same time, one just continues to wander in his own rhythm, at his own pace, in his own space!❣️ It all seems imperfect, all efforts redirected to make it perfect, but it is as it is!❤️ #07:11:2025::10:20:pm
- #1359 खंडेराव, मानवी मनातील द्वंद्व सोडवणे तसं कठीणच!🧘♂️ सर्व गोष्टींचा मागोवा घेणारे मन आता नेमके करायचं काय याचा जेव्हा विचार करत, तेव्हा त्या गोष्टी नक्कीच प्रगल्भ असतात.✨ वैचारिक व इतर बाजूंनी विचार करून जेव्हा एखादा व्यक्ती अशा वाटेवर वाटचाल करतो, तेव्हा अशी एक वेळ येते, जेव्हा प्रश्न पडतो, खरंच, “Is this really worth the efforts?”, पण “it really is!” याची जाणीव जरी मनाला असली तरी तेव्हा गरज असते त्या ठाम निर्धाराची!💫 कधीतरी जेव्हा मागे वळून पाहिलं जात आणि आयुष्याच्या कॅनव्हास वर उमटलेले समृद्ध चित्र पाहिले, की मग हे सगळ थोडस सोपं होत, हेही तितकेच खरे म्हणा!🖼️ #TheCanvasOfLife🎨 #१२:११:२०२५::११:३४:pm
- #1360 A few months ago, I chose to do something to improve the digital life, deleted all the social media accounts.😌 It’s not that I am saying I did something great, but that is something that has fundamentally impacted and brought out some positives in life; maybe less random thoughts, slightly improved attention, focused times, less dopamine hits and many more.🤹 Now, when I am reading the anxious generation, I think that was a pivotal point that has started something interesting.📖 Though, I am missing the updates, reels and much more, I have the opportunity to look at the third eye view of stuff and one needs to be aware of it! Sometimes times are lonely, time doesn’t pass, but one needs to do nothing for some time to do better things at other time.💫 Overall, though, I am in the midst of a book, am able to relate stuff and definitely recommend the book!❣️ On the brighter side, life has improved and will continue!🌱 #MovingFromTheAnxiousLife🤠 #13:11:2025::08:44:am
- #1361 Sometimes it feels great to be part of such communities, where one seamlessly becomes the part of the group.🤩 You learn something from someone, you teach something to someone and you get to know a set of people who really care!🤍 Honestly, it’s a blessing and I am really grateful for it and then one re-energizes to continue on this journey of adventure! ❤️ The patterns connect, something leads to something else and you end up somewhere beautiful, how beautiful this is, isn’t it!😇 In the digital world, the network never ceases to be the community that one needs to enrich, nourish and flourish!🌱 Lucky to have a lot of them around me!❣️ #14:11:2025::09:55:pm
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