Experiments for efficency

  I Had No Idea, But I Unmuted Anyway Most people don’t unmute during webinars. You know that silence when the host asks, “Any questions?” and nobody wants to risk sounding stupid? Yeah. I was 12, in 7th grade, sitting on the floor with my laptop, surrounded by half-finished robotics parts and cold chai, when I unmuted in front of 500 people. How It All Started Back in 6th grade, I was just messing around with mBlock, building robots that beeped and bumped into walls, convincing myself I was cool af. I didn’t really know what I was doing, but I loved the feeling of making something move because I told it to. Then came 7th grade and Raspberry Pi. Python was like this alien language that I wanted to crack just so I could say, “Yeah, I code in Python.” I’d copy-paste commands, break things, fix them, break them again, and watch YouTube tutorials at 2 AM with that single headphone so no one at home knew I was still awake. The Webinar I started attending every free webinar I ...

 I stopped blogging a few months ago. At first, it was because I didn’t feel like writing much. Or maybe I didn’t feel like putting something truly mine out into the world. There’s a certain vulnerability that comes with sharing your words, even if no one is reading them. But lately, I’ve been wanting to write again. Not for an audience, not for validation, but for myself. So, if you’re somehow here, reading this, consider it a quiet update I’m giving to myself, so that future me can look back and see how I was living and thinking in July 2025. I shifted schools recently. And surprisingly, I’ve adjusted well. The new environment is refreshing, and I’ve made some really good friends—people who feel like warm cups of tea on a tired evening, people with whom silences aren’t awkward but comforting. In this process, I learned something: friendship can’t be measured by how long it lasts . When I was younger, I believed in “best friends forever.” But I’ve realized that “forever” ca...

 Let’s be real— procrastination is a mastermind. It whispers, “You have time,” while secretly leading you straight into last-minute panic. I’ve fallen for its tricks more times than I’d like to admit. But this time, I was done playing defense. So, I pulled off a psychological heist on my own brain.                                  I set a fake exam date to trick myself into studying early. But that wasn’t enough—I needed pressure, competition, and a reason to push harder. Enter Aria , my completely imaginary, ridiculously talented rival who was always ahead of me.                                        What started as a weird little experiment spiraled into something much bigger. Did I actually outsmart my own laziness? Or did my brain catch onto the deception? Buckle up—this was one wild ride...

  Back in 5th grade, my cousin and I, just like every other curious kid, decided to try writing with our left hands for fun. We competed to see whose handwriting was better, and that was the moment I realized one thing very clearly—I was absolutely not ambidextrous. Despite this, my desire to write with my left hand didn’t fade. It wasn’t about wanting to become left-handed, but rather about developing the ability to write just as well with my left hand as I did with my right. This fascination was further fueled by an episode of OMG! Yeh Mera India on History TV 18, which aired in 2018. That episode significantly increased my curiosity about ambidexterity. Until then, I had assumed ambidexterity was a natural talent—something you were either born with or not. Movies like 3 Idiots also played a role in shaping this belief. The character Viru Sahastrabuddhe (Virus) didn’t inspire me with his personality, but his ability to write with both hands at the same time certainly did. La...

  How I Quit Doomscrolling and Took Back My Time Doomscrolling is the modern-day trap—one moment, you're checking the news, and the next, you're deep into an endless loop of negativity, mindless content, and wasted hours. I fell into this cycle more times than I can count, and every time, I told myself, "Just five more minutes." But those minutes turned into hours, leaving me drained, anxious, and frustrated with myself. It had to stop. Here’s exactly how I quit doomscrolling and reclaimed my focus. 1. I Made My Phone Less Addictive Most apps are designed to keep you hooked. So, I removed what wasn't necessary. Social media? Gone. News apps? Deleted. For essential apps, I used a browser instead of an app—extra friction made mindless scrolling annoying enough to stop. I also switched my phone to grayscale mode to make it visually unappealing. Colors are designed to trigger dopamine; grayscale makes everything dull (and boring phones are a win!). In my previo...

Boring on Purpose! Boring on Purpose! 📱 How Much Time Do You Waste on Your Phone? Enter your daily screen time (in hours): 📊 Calculate My Screen Time! I see my generation slipping into a digital black hole—eyes glued to screens, minds hijacked by endless notifications, fingers scrolling through an infinite feed of nothingness. I watch my friends losing sleep, their attention spans shrinking, their real-world ambitions fading. And I refuse to be one of them. I’m not against technology—I’m against being controlled by it. I know that if I let my smartphone dictate my habits, I’ll lose hours, days, even years to mindless scrolling. So, I’ve made a choice. Instead of letting my phone run my life, I’ve taken control. I’ve turned my smartphone into a dumb phone—on purpose. Here’s how. I am 15 years old, and until recently, I did not have a smartphone—not because my parents wouldn’t get me one, but because I didn’t want one. I had seen my friend...

The Experiment Mindset Today, we are going to discuss an important concept: the experiment mindset. Many have talked about it before, but given that my blog is named Experiments for Efficiency , this idea resonates deeply with me. My blog has been alive since December, and it exists precisely because of this mindset. Before we try something new, we often hesitate because we don’t know what the outcome will be. We may have expectations, but uncertainty can paralyze us. The experiment mindset allows me to take the first step without being fixated on the end result. I had been wanting to start this blog for quite a long time, but it was this mindset that allowed me to actually begin - Instead of considering this as a challenge I told myself that this is just an experiment. It helped me overcome the fear of failure, which is often the biggest barrier to starting anything new. As they say, the start is the hardest part. The idea of experimenting to improve efficiency wasn’t something I alwa...