Attention, paradoxes and a half — March 2026
- Issue
- March 2026
- In numbers
- 21 km raced, 2 books, 4 posts written
Dear reader,
March had one race, the Nanded City LSOM 21K, run with the team from United Enduros in 2:20. Strava counted about 145 kilometres over the month, across 36 activities.
The theme of the month was attention — who has it, who takes it, and what that costs. I read John Brockman's Is the internet changing the way you think? and Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, and the writing followed the reading: The Attention Crisis, The Digital Paradox, and a post on coping with dopamine hits.
Away from screens, the Yuva Sanvad Shibir — a youth development camp — got a post of its own.
The short posts were about doing things properly, slowly — and about how, some days, nothing exciting happens and that is fine too.
On the site, the homepage, the Now page and the Challenges tab were redesigned to feel like one place, and the sports page learned to show the marathons interactively.
On the road
Treks & outings
On the shelf
- Is the internet changing the way you think? — John Brockman
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism — Shoshana Zuboff
Written
- Coping with dopamine hits and what it means to be digital nomad!
- Yuva Sanvad Shibir
- The Attention Crisis
- The Digital Paradox
Short posts
- #1376
- #1376 There is some interesting anecdote about doing something perfectly. You observe stuff. Some lead simplicity, some choose to be busy all the time while most just keep looping in the vicious cycle of social norms, daily work and social media.🤹🏻 Somehow one runs from the oneself by avoiding being alone. You always do something, scroll the feedback, listen to songs, watch movies while working, but this further churns you in a busy bandwagon.🧑💻 One has to get out of this, find thy own zone where one strives to do perfect things, finds his calm, overcomes the social norms and engaged with the self!🧘♂️ Most focused people that really do something meaningful are in that zone!✨ So, you find your own rhythm, don’t get stuck in this vicious cycle, strive to be perfect and roam freely in the wide sky of opportunities which has no boundaries!💫 #13:03:2026::09:36:am
- #१३७७ #खंडेराव_उवाच खंडेराव, एखादी गोष्ट परफेक्टली करण्याविषयी एक इंटरेस्टिंग गोष्ट आहे.🤹🏻 काही लोक साधे पणाने राहतात , काही सतत काहीतरी करत असतात तर बहुतांश लोक हे रोजचे काम, सामाजिक बंधन आणि सोशल मीडिया यांच्यामध्ये इतके गुंततात की गेलेला वेळ, दिवस, महिने, वर्ष कधी कळतच नाही.🧑💻 मागे वळून पाहिले तर आपण या काळात नेमकं काय केलं याचं उत्तर कधीच भेटत नाही.🫣 यातून बाहेर पडण्यासाठी नेमकं काय करावं?🤔 आपला असा एखादा zone शोधावा, ज्यात तुम्ही सर्व काही व्यवस्थित करत आहात, तुम्ही शांत आहात, स्वतःसोबत वेळ घालवत आहात, प्रश्नांपासून न पळता, त्यांना खरंच सोडवत आहात, निसर्गात थोड निवांत फिरत आहात!✨ हे असंच काहीस focused लोक करत असतील बहुदा!💫 बाकी, तू तुझे पाहून घे, या बंधनामध्ये अडकू नकोस, मुक्त वावर कर, मुक्त आकाशात भरारी घे!🤍 #१३:०३:२०२६::०९:३७:am
- #1378 #theMorningThoughts And, there will be the time when the culmination of efforts will start to rise!❤️ There will be less ambush and more good things happening around you.😍 Most would feel “awe” when seeing at the things that you have done, yet you know these are the fruits of efforts of intense mornings and fresh evenings where you pushed yourself a step further to run that extra mile, read those few pages of book, complete the unfinished blog and thrive in digital life a step at a time.✌️ Often everything seems difficult, impossible to get out of, but one needs vision to overview things for good to be able to get out of this!🫡 You wake up everyday early in the morning, do exercise, read something, do work, do something interesting in the evening and had a early sleep for a significant amount of time and then you wonder why all the good things keep happening to you so quickly!😌 But what one needs to know most is the need for the motive of doing all this, once you have that fixed in your mind, nobody other than your own self will stop you!✨ So, dare to do things, get into the speed and just for what matters the most today!🤍 #17:03:2026::06:00:am
- #1379 The dichotomy of luck and the essence of aliniation!✨ One thing happens when you try to do a lot of stuff at a lot of places!😌 You eventually find yourself at the right place at the right time, a lot of times.❣️ The momentary/ instantaneous decisions lead to something big, something beautiful, something interesting, something meaningful!🌱 The ones that you think will be with you for a long time, turn out to be the short ones and unexpected ones somehow stay longer in touch.🤔 So, it’s important to create those chances of exposure, which will further turn out to be something big.💫 Doing something silently, intentionally being out of sight, often is the most difficult yet interesting path to go!🏞️ You keep doing stuff that seems to be done for no reason, but deep somewhere you believe in sleek chances that has led you to this point and would further take you way higher than expected!🤍 And, just like that, you slowly master the art of vanishing from the social feeds of all, in turn safeguarding yourself from the others feed!🤠 #17:03:2026::09:35:pm
- #१३८० #खंडेराव_उवाच खंडेराव, आयुष्यात रोजच काही exciting होईल असं नाही. बहुदा, तुम्ही एखाद्या गोष्टीची, व्यक्तीची, घटनेची वाट पाहत असता. कदाचित तुमच्या धैर्याची ती परीक्षा असते. अशावेळी एका जागी शांत बसून राहायला आवडतं. तुम्ही शांत होता. आजूबाजूच्या घटकांचा, व्यक्तींचा, तुमच्या निर्णयांचा विचार करता. हे सगळं करताना एक गोष्ट असते, या सगळ्याच्या शेवटी काहीतरी चांगले होईल, असा विश्वास असतो. या सगळ्या प्रक्रियेमध्ये एक वेगळीच मजा आहे, हेही तितकेच खरे! बाकी, हे सर्व होत राहीलच, तू तुझा स्थितप्रज्ञतेचा प्रवास चालु ठेव आणि या प्रक्रियेवर विश्वास ठेव इतकच! #२३:०३:२०२६::१०:३४:pm
- #1381 Things are often slow, you wait for something, but it doesn’t happen! The slow life, the thoughts, the monotonousness all combine to slow the time. The motivation dries up, you just want to sit calm and enjoy the moment! Things take time and often demand patience! In those moments, you think about stuff, solve the dilemmas, give rest to your tired mind & body, prepare for the hard times and just keep going! Although, distractions from instagram no longer bother me, sometimes few of such thoughts somehow enter your mind! It’s the belief in the process that matters the most and drives one to keep doing what matters the most! Things take time to mature, but once done, it’s magic definitely overwhelms you! #23:03:2026::10:35:pm
This site
- Re-designed homepage, now page, challenges tab and added coherency in design
- Updated sports page to show interactive view of marathons data