Mumbai Marathon and ten essays — January 2026
- Issue
- January 2026
- In numbers
- 42 km raced, 10 posts written, 2 short posts
Dear reader,
January began with forty-two kilometres through Mumbai. The Tata Mumbai Marathon 2026 was the month's one race, and it got its own write-up.
It was also the month the writing opened up: ten posts in thirty-one days. I wrote about the pacer's lessons from December, about Obsidian and better note-taking, about digital well-being and the slow path towards becoming a digital nomad, and about the choices we make. I also put my reading into a digital catalogue of its own, and took up the 100 Days To Offload challenge — a hundred posts in a year — which explains a lot of what came after.
Outside the page, the Pune Public Policy Festival, and a talk by Vivek Sawant on the career challenges of the AI era.
The site grew with it: a Books page, and a Challenges page to keep me honest about the hundred.
On the road
Treks & outings
- Pune Public Policy Festival (PPPF) 2025
- Vivek Sawant — Career Challenges in AI Era
Written
- The wanderer's narration of journey towards being digital nomad!
- Digital Well-being: The Subtle Perspective
- Tata Mumbai Marathon 2026
- What's really worth the efforts?
- Challenges: How I vibe-coded something to help me achieve do stuff!
- Obsidian - The Enabler for Better Note-taking
- The Choices We Make!
- Pune International Marathon: What leading the marathon as Pacer for Half-Marathon taught me!
- Books that I have read: My Own Digital Catalog!
- 100 Days To Offload
Short posts
- #1367 #TranquilityInSerenity We all are searching for tranquility inside us. 🧘♂️ Often when we are not wandering in the digital world, the curious self tries to find the calm corner deep somewhere within us.😌 Unknowingly all the efforts that we unconsciously take, lead to some place calm.🤍 Everyone has different choices of his calm, someone needs a long ride, somebody wonders in journeys, someone goes the serene nature and very few find the calm where they are!🏞️ Maybe that’s the ultimate aim of wondering, don’t know for others, but surely yes for me.❣️ The memories of serenity, the decluttered mind, everything comes together to weave that beautiful mind!🌱 #05:01:2026::07:26:pm
- #1368 In a way, life gives you signals. When to stop, when to start. When to self-focus, when to wander, when to stay where you are. Trusting the process and set of people is something that you do along the way. At some point, you feel some devotion, you whole-heartedly do things expecting nothing. Then the time passes and you realise somehow the bonds are more detached than ever. Then you think of investing in yourself and start doing that. Wake up early, run than planned mile, read that interesting book, go to work, come back and do something interesting and rest well just to get up tomorrow once again! After some time, the process evolves, you do things more passionately, more intensively and just enjoy the process! By avoiding social media, you simply avoid the ups and downs during the day, a bliss, really. Every action in itself, starts turning into meditation and you just enjoy everything! #LifeAMeditation #29:01:2025::09:03:pm
This site
- Added Books Page
- Added Challenges Page