यावानर्थ उदपाने सर्वत: सम्प्लुतोदके | तावान्सर्वेषु वेदेषु ब्राह्मणस्य विजानत: || 46||

To an enlightened person who has known the Self, all the Vedas are of as much use as is a reservoir of water in a place where there is a flood.

• Bhagavad Gita 2.46

I am rolling back on my Vedanta practice and focusing on Yoga practice for the time being. Advaita Vedanta is subtle and I don’t have the mental stillness to understand those subtleties. So I am rolling back my focus to be completely around Yoga and disciplining myself around Patanjali's 8 Limbs first. While the Vedanta philosophy is what I ultimately aspire for I need to purify the body before ultimately focusing on the Vedantic philosophy.

This is in part a larger problem I am facing. The goal of Sadhana is liberation. But it seems now I am addicted to the reading of texts instead of the practice. The practice is what is important, the texts are ways to improve the practice. Over time as the mind achieves stillness that is when Vedanta and the pure essence of reality can be learned.

As part of this focus on Yoga practice I am fine tuning my Sadhana framework by focusing on a few key key teachers. I am working my way through their teachings and incorporating them into my practice. But at some point I will run out of the teachings to read and will have to focus on the practice itself.

I think that is the point.

Sadhana is simplifying one’s life. In this regard my life has had way too many moving pieces with my attention pulling me in every which way. But as part of streamlining my life and reducing stress I have decided that there is only one number that matters:

• Number of Meditation Hours per month

Really nothing else matters. How long can you sit, and working backwards from them what lets you sit for that long.

This is an internal infrastructure update where we have setup Google Workspace according to products. Interestingly what M365 calls Sites can just be considered as Shared Drives in Google Workspace. We are now organized according to this structure. How this is setup is described in the Infra document.

Github is also organized according to products and agencies. An agency does the services work and then builds out individual products. This makes it easier to manage the code and the products.

WhatsApp is now used for a majority of the communication. We use communities and divide teams into various groups that execute tasks for their silos.

I now have a single financial infrastructure for the entire company. This allows me to run the company as a single person business.

All of these changes will help scale faster as we add 5 new members to the team this week.

After nearly half a year of practice I have finally settled on a framework for my Yoga practice. This practice is oriented around Patanjali Yoga Sutras, each of the eight limbs incorporating the other Yogas. By creating this end to end framework I have a holistic end to end guide for my own practice. I don’t know if this is correct, but it does seem to create a system that I find helpful.

This month has been setting up this framework and discovering how the other yogas include Karma, Bhakti, Jnana, Kundalini and Hatha overlap within the Patanjali's Raja Yoga framework. Though is is hard to pin any of these down to a single limb, I have found that they can be mapped to the limbs of Patanjali Yoga Sutras. In that regard I am pretty satisfied with the framework I have created.

For the future, my goal is to dive into each of the limbs and master each. I believe that this will take lifetimes, but I am excited to see where it takes me.

Why We’re Consolidating on Google Workspace​

After spending the last year wrestling with Microsoft 365, we’ve decided to make a clean break and standardize our operations back on Google Workspace. The experience with Microsoft’s suite wasn’t just frustrating — it was actively slowing us down.

Microsoft 365: Built for Enterprise, Not for the Rest of Us​

At its core, Microsoft 365 feels like a suite built for large enterprises — and increasingly only for large enterprises. As a midmarket business, we found ourselves constantly running into limitations that weren’t due to lack of features, but due to complexity, brittleness, and weird user experiences.

Basic tasks often became tangled in layers of permissions, sync issues, or strange UI behavior. It felt like we were spending more time trying to make the tools work than actually using them. Worse, with Microsoft shifting 30% of its engineering focus toward AI, the quality of core features seems to have taken a hit. Things just don’t work as well as they used to — or as reliably.

While certain things like Excel are amazing, trying to make it work within the OneDrive ecosystem was a nightmare with endless amounts of lost syncs.

Why We're Going Back to Google Workspace​

Google Workspace isn’t perfect, but it is consistent, lightweight, and designed with modern workflows in mind. Its web-first architecture means apps are tightly integrated and behave predictably. It just works — which is what we want from tools that are supposed to help us move fast and collaborate seamlessly.

Beyond that, our long-term bet is on Gemini, Google’s AI offering. We believe that Google’s approach to AI — integrated deeply into everyday productivity tools — will yield better results for how we work. The synergy between Docs, Gmail, Sheets, and AI is already showing promise.

Final Thoughts​

This isn’t just a tooling decision — it’s a strategic shift. We want our team to spend time building and thinking, not troubleshooting and clicking through endless dialog boxes. We believe Google Workspace, with its simplicity and forward-thinking AI integration, is better aligned with the needs of agile, modern teams.

So yes — we’re consolidating on Google Workspace. And we’re not looking back.