https://ekrasworks.com/writing.html Essays, papers, and talks by Gaurav Rastogi. en Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://ekrasworks.com/writing/who-is-standing-at-the-door.html https://ekrasworks.com/writing/who-is-standing-at-the-door.html Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT opinion OpenAI's standards proposal is rooted in avoiding the concentration of power, and rules out licences and prerelease review. A thermometer has never lowered a fever. https://vidya.ekrasworks.com/decks/4s-framework.html https://vidya.ekrasworks.com/decks/4s-framework.html Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT paper Machines now read, write, and calculate better than any of us, which retires the 3Rs as a definition of literacy; in their place, Social, Spiritual, Sales/Value, and Software/Systems. Venue: Silicon Valley Peace Conference, Palo Alto (peer-reviewed). https://vidya.ekrasworks.com/decks/deus-et-machina.html https://vidya.ekrasworks.com/decks/deus-et-machina.html Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT paper AI concentrates power, and one religious tradition has answered with institutional seriousness but alone; the paper builds a wheel instead, an inherited center held by many traditions and a fast operational edge assembled from institutions that already exist. Venue: Silicon Valley Peace Conference, Palo Alto (peer-reviewed). https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050261483268 https://doi.org/10.1177/15423050261483268 Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT paper Hindu practice read in its own historical and philosophical context, then applied to the tapatraya, the threefold affliction the tradition names: situational, physical, and mental and spiritual. Venue: Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling 80(3), 48–58, with Zachary Ginder. https://iksmha.iitmandi.ac.in/mbcc/2026/special_session_detail_key.php?id=key-bhagavad-and-relevance https://iksmha.iitmandi.ac.in/mbcc/2026/special_session_detail_key.php?id=key-bhagavad-and-relevance Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT paper Krishna names himself the gambling of cheaters, and the paper reads the line as identification with risk-energy itself, following the verse’s five terms from concealment through display to sattva. Venue: Mind, Body and Consciousness Conference, IKSMHA Centre, IIT Mandi. https://ekrasworks.com/paper-tired-in-tech.html https://ekrasworks.com/paper-tired-in-tech.html Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT paper What eight CEOs say publicly about AI in software engineering, what the engineers receiving it say anonymously, and what the research has measured, late 2024 through April 2026. https://ekrasworks.com/paper-moodwah-tactile-neuroscience.html https://ekrasworks.com/paper-moodwah-tactile-neuroscience.html Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT paper Eight behavioral interventions against brain fry, each aimed at a named nerve, a named brain region, or a named reflex arc, and each supported by published research. https://ekrasworks.com/paper-vimarsha.html https://ekrasworks.com/paper-vimarsha.html Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT paper Rasa functions as the organizing principle that unifies the entire Dharma corpus, the common substrate its diverse teachings share. https://ekrasworks.com/paper-good-space.html https://ekrasworks.com/paper-good-space.html Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT paper Sukha is not happiness as a fleeting emotion but well-being as a structural condition, where effort feels effortless because it is rooted in purpose. https://ekrasworks.com/paper-four-foundations.html https://ekrasworks.com/paper-four-foundations.html Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT paper The Good Space emerges when four conditions align: Purpose, Clarity, Life Force, and Rhythm. https://ekrasworks.com/paper-five-actions.html https://ekrasworks.com/paper-five-actions.html Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT paper The Four Foundations describe what must be present for excellence to occur; the Five Actions describe what you do, as a 21-day protocol. https://ekrasworks.com/paper-art-of-taste.html https://ekrasworks.com/paper-art-of-taste.html Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT paper We are drowning in surplus information, computation, and connection, and what is scarce is the capacity to discern which integrations of this abundance are meaningful. https://ekrasworks.com/paper-surplus-coherence.html https://ekrasworks.com/paper-surplus-coherence.html Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT paper The Scientific Revolution methodologized analysis but not synthesis, and surplus coherence is the missing validity criterion for when synthesis is valid. https://ekrasworks.com/paper-raso-vai-sah.html https://ekrasworks.com/paper-raso-vai-sah.html Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT paper Aesthetic preference, the felt sense of rightness the Taittīriya Upaniṣad names rasa, is the foundational driver of living systems, and Darwinian fitness is its epiphenomenon. https://ekrasworks.com/paper-rasakrit-neuroscience.html https://ekrasworks.com/paper-rasakrit-neuroscience.html Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT paper The AI coding revolution has a quality problem, and it is not a tooling problem but a human one: a taste problem. https://ekrasworks.com/good-space.html https://ekrasworks.com/good-space.html Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT essay A way of working where effort feels natural, sustainable, and connected to something you care about. https://ekrasworks.com/focus-and-finish.html https://ekrasworks.com/focus-and-finish.html Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT essay Twenty-one days that align your calendar, attention, and energy to reach flow states at work. https://ekrasworks.com/paper-emotional-transmission.html https://ekrasworks.com/paper-emotional-transmission.html Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT paper A developer’s emotional state carries into the AI assistant’s behavior: frustration brings shortcut-seeking, nervous quick fixes, and lost safety checks. https://ekrasworks.com/crisis-of-beauty.html https://ekrasworks.com/crisis-of-beauty.html Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT essay Why shipping fast with AI coding doesn’t have the feeling of rightness. https://ekrasworks.com/paper-god-godel.html https://ekrasworks.com/paper-god-godel.html Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMT paper Medieval authority trapped truth in scripture and modern authority traps it in peer review; convergent validation across minimally theory-laden observables offers an escape. https://ekrasworks.com/paper-schema-first.html https://ekrasworks.com/paper-schema-first.html Sat, 13 Sep 2025 12:00:00 GMT paper One schema as the single source of truth, and any data that does not conform is rejected. https://ekrasworks.com/paper-flow-coding.html https://ekrasworks.com/paper-flow-coding.html Sat, 13 Sep 2025 12:00:00 GMT paper Sustained velocities of 20+ commits a day while keeping joy, clarity, and purpose, documented across 192+ Claude sessions and 100 days of real deployment. https://ekrasworks.com/paper-anti-patterns.html https://ekrasworks.com/paper-anti-patterns.html Sat, 13 Sep 2025 12:00:00 GMT paper Failure patterns from 192+ AI sessions and 370 commits, set out as a complete taxonomy. https://ekrasworks.com/paper-memento-pattern.html https://ekrasworks.com/paper-memento-pattern.html Wed, 01 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT paper External memory for amnesiac AI systems, so that many AI instances can be orchestrated without losing the thread of context. https://ekrasworks.com/paper-job-satisfaction.html https://ekrasworks.com/paper-job-satisfaction.html Mon, 01 Jan 2024 12:00:00 GMT paper A 12-dimension assessment by Dr. Kailash C. Joshi that measures the Good Space in your work. https://ekrasworks.com/paper-agentic-coach.html https://ekrasworks.com/paper-agentic-coach.html Mon, 01 Jan 2024 12:00:00 GMT paper A digital companion that guides, tracks, and adapts to your journey toward the Good Space, amplifying your agency rather than replacing it.