Essays and evergreen notes by Vish Vaddi.https://vishvaddi.com/https://vishvaddi.com/notes/hello-world/https://vishvaddi.com/notes/hello-world/Why this site exists.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vishvaddi.com/notes/karma-yoga/https://vishvaddi.com/notes/karma-yoga/The Bhagavad Gita's antidote to overthinking: do the work with everything you have, then release attachment to the outcome. The grasping doesn't change the result. It only adds suffering.Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vishvaddi.com/notes/manage-energy-not-time/https://vishvaddi.com/notes/manage-energy-not-time/Time is fixed and equal for everyone. Energy is volatile, renewable, and trainable. The high performers aren't the people with more hours — they're the people who match high-energy windows to high-leverage work.Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vishvaddi.com/notes/negative-capability/https://vishvaddi.com/notes/negative-capability/Keats's term for the highest mark of imaginative intelligence: the capacity to dwell in not-knowing without forcing premature resolution. The philosophical opposite of overthinking.Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vishvaddi.com/notes/ooda-loop-tempo/https://vishvaddi.com/notes/ooda-loop-tempo/Boyd's loop wasn't about better decisions. It was about cycling faster than the opponent — getting inside their loop until they're responding to a world that no longer exists.Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vishvaddi.com/notes/theory-of-constraints/https://vishvaddi.com/notes/theory-of-constraints/Every system has exactly one binding constraint at any moment. Optimising anything else is waste — the system can only move at the speed of the constraint. The actual constraint is usually the thing you avoid looking at.Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vishvaddi.com/notes/antifragility/https://vishvaddi.com/notes/antifragility/Fragile things break under stress. Robust things withstand it. Antifragile things get stronger from it. Most of what matters in life — muscles, skills, resilience, immunity — is antifragile by design.Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vishvaddi.com/notes/wu-wei/https://vishvaddi.com/notes/wu-wei/The Tao Te Ching's central practical principle. Not passivity, not laziness — action that flows naturally from the situation, without the ego forcing or straining against the grain.Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vishvaddi.com/notes/resilience-requires-redundancy/https://vishvaddi.com/notes/resilience-requires-redundancy/When a system has a single point of failure, that point isn't a component — it's the entire system. True resilience is independent backups across every domain where failure is genuinely costly.Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vishvaddi.com/notes/self-sufficiency-compounds/https://vishvaddi.com/notes/self-sufficiency-compounds/Solar powers the pump. The pump moves rainwater. The rainwater feeds the garden. The garden frees money for more solar. Resilience is a multiplicative system, not an additive one.Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vishvaddi.com/notes/sharp-edge-maintained-regularly/https://vishvaddi.com/notes/sharp-edge-maintained-regularly/Thirty seconds of honing before each use prevents the micro-damage that compounds into expensive repair. The same principle governs tools, skills, and habits: the cost of upkeep is always lower than the cost of neglect.Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vishvaddi.com/notes/catastrophe-planning/https://vishvaddi.com/notes/catastrophe-planning/The only time catastrophe planning is effective is before the catastrophe. Mid-crisis, cognitive load is maximal and options narrow rapidly. The documents you didn't sign and the conversations you didn't have when conditions were good become unaffordable when they aren't.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vishvaddi.com/notes/domain-expertise-vs-ai/https://vishvaddi.com/notes/domain-expertise-vs-ai/As AI tools lower the barrier to building software, deep industry knowledge becomes the differentiator that compounds, not the one that erodes.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vishvaddi.com/notes/commitment-architecture/https://vishvaddi.com/notes/commitment-architecture/Willpower is finite, unreliable, and the wrong tool for sustained behaviour change. Make the decision now — when your rational mind is engaged — that removes your future self's ability to opt out in the moment.Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vishvaddi.com/notes/environment-design/https://vishvaddi.com/notes/environment-design/People act on what is in front of them, not on what they intend. One hour spent redesigning your environment beats weeks of trying harder.Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vishvaddi.com/notes/never-miss-twice/https://vishvaddi.com/notes/never-miss-twice/Missing one day is acceptable and inevitable. Missing two consecutive days is not a pause — it's a restart. The gap between one miss and two misses is the gap between a blip and a broken streak.Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vishvaddi.com/notes/sleep-is-the-master-lever/https://vishvaddi.com/notes/sleep-is-the-master-lever/Sleep is not one variable among many. It is the substrate that determines the value of every other variable. No supplement, habit, or strategy operates at full effectiveness on five hours.Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT