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Be this One. Mere study is not sufficient. Study gives us information. Scriptures and śāstras only give us a road map. However much you may study the road map, you will never reach the pilgrim centre. Study the map, roll it up and keep it handy by your side, as it may be useful en route during the journey. Now get up from your chair, get into your vehicle and move on along the 'way' the map indicates so clearly.

Chinnamayananda, Practice of Vedanta

I am reaching the end of the start of my Sadhana, having now practiced for 6 months. This does not in any way mean I am close to any sort of mastery, but I define it as the end because I do think I have a framework and a set of teachers that I can follow instead of just jumping from one to another. I think this is the hardest part as there are just so many different teachers and paths to follow. I have read some shastras, the shastras to be read are endless.

At some point, a person has to pick their path and make that path the core focus of their life. Mine is Raja Yoga as it is the path I am passionate about and because it incorporates the other paths within its fold.

The Raja Yoga path, in a sense, is measurable which gets the engineer in me excited. The gist of it is: How many hours of meditation have I done? If I am are keeping accurate count this also tracks the rest of my life. You need a sattvic life to have good meditation. You need a simple life to have good meditation. To be able to sit for a long time without getting distracted is needed for good meditation. Bad meditation has your mind reeling, you just don’t want to be there. You feel dull and everything within you feels far away.

In that regard good meditation requires a purity of the rest of one’s life. This purity work is a lifetime of work.

• Health and Hatha
• Cleanliness: Home, Body, Mind
• Being a good parent
• Being a good businessman
• Volunteering
• Removing tamas and rajas from the mind

All of the above are the prime focuses that I have with the goal of making my sitting meditation better. But the real goal is that sitting meditation and everyday life should not have a difference. All Yoga is meditation.

In that regard the next steps of my progress are plain and simple. It is to setup a process. This process is to go on forever, continuously finding error in myself and fixing those errors using Patanjali’s eight limbs as the framework. I don’t think a massive change all at once will work as it will lead to burnout. Small incremental improvements is the goal.

The primary means to coordinate all of this improvement is through Japa as the bridge. The mind needs to dwell on something at all times so that it isn’t idle or preoccupied with the past or the future. It needs to focus on the present.

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.

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.