Hungry mind

Last month I caught myself endlessly scrolling reels at 2 a.m, asking is it good or bad? and realised it wasn’t me doing it. It was someone else in my head: the Hungry mind.
My inner world has a management team. I thought I was the CEO - turns out, I’m not

There are uncountable members in our brains, today we will try to know one of them:

Hungry mind: The part of my brain that is an always-on driver, constantly craving for food, sex, safety, wealth, validation, status, health, happiness, etc. I often call them needs and wants. 

Me: The reflective passenger who thinks I’m in charge.

For years I assumed I was the driver. Turns out the driver is fully autonomous and rarely waits for my instructions. 

Jhanas

It’s been 40 days since I attended a Jhana retreat with amazing humans of Jhourney.io and I still haven’t found the perfect word to describe what happened. 

If Vipassana was like learning to walk again, Jhana was like riding a bike with training wheels, then realizing one day you don’t need them anymore.

Before this retreat, I used to do Vipassana meditation. Vipassana taught me how to accept reality as it is. Jhana, on the other hand, was an invitation to go deeper, an altered state where I could change my perception of reality.


What Jhana Felt Like

  • Walking out of a steam room (130°F) as if nothing happened.

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Inside Founder's Brain

Over the past few months, I’ve had the privilege to speak with students at IIT Delhi,  IIT Roorkee, IIT Madras and many others. They invited me to share my founder journey with the upcoming aspiring founders. But instead of a typical presentation, I walked in with memes.

Every slide was a mirror of my own journey, of what broke me, what shaped me, and what I wish someone had told me earlier.

No jargon. No filters. From PMF highs to lows and burnouts to breakthroughs.

Here’s a glimpse to what it takes to be a founder.

China

There’s something about China that forces you to unlearn everything you thought you knew. It’s not just the language or the scale. The way things move. The speed at which people adapt. 

I had to unlearn my perception of China. The people, the culture, the clarity with which they operate. The amount of protein they have in their diets, haha! What struck me most was how self-sufficient, and meritocratic the environment felt. I came in curious, I left humbled. This wasn’t just a trip, it was a privilege. An eye-opener. 

I wrote a long tweet sharing my observations from the experience.

Running

I once chased speed at 120 km/h on a Harley, until a crash changed everything. With metal in my arm and everyone telling me to stop riding, I had to find a new outlet. 

I had to find a new way to feel alive.

Running didn’t just heal my body. It gave me rhythm, pain I chose, and mornings I wanted to wake up for.

I initially used to think running is boring. How is constantly doing the same thing fun and that too at the same location and I saw most of the people running in circles 😂

It started with pain. It turned into peace. Every milli-second hurts, but every milli-second counts.

This isn’t a fitness story. It’s about chasing freedom through pain and finding clarity in motion.

I wrote a tweet about it and to my surprise, many people found it golden.

Vipassana

I finally did something I’d been putting off for years, my first Vipassana retreat.

10 days. No talking, no phone, no writing, no reading. Just observing my breath, my body, and my mind - moment to moment. Most importantly an open mind.

I went in with 3 expectations:

  1. Time to think, reflect, and nurture my intuition

  2. Rebuild my attention span

  3. Test my limits through a tough challenge

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