Vertically Challenged, Mentally Levitated

Confessions of a slow reader

Nov 1 • Vivek Jones

October 2025

The Subtle Art of Saving My Mind

It’s been many years in the unmaking.

Oct 28 • Vivek Jones

September 2023

The story of my hair'less' adventures

An ordinary man's account of mid-life degeneration

Sep 7, 2023 • Vivek Jones

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May 2023

Show Your Work!

Purpose of book/ The aim of the author:

May 26, 2023 • Vivek Jones

Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

Central Argument: Everyone can make art and the way to make it is by stealing and mashing plenty of existing ideas and customizing it to present your…

May 25, 2023 • Vivek Jones

August 2022

"What? I can't hear you!"— Qualified Temporal Deafness (QTD)— How Respectable People Respectfully Disrespect You

I have observed this strange phenomenon of people going deaf at the most inopportune (opportune?) time.

Aug 6, 2022 • Vivek

July 2022

Compassion for Nature

I had the opportunity to visit Bhoothathankettu, a site of a natural dam, a week ago with my family.

Jul 8, 2022 • Vivek

Nature's Antifragility: The Way Out of Armageddon

Yesterday, my father-in-law, wife, kids, and I took off on a rainy day to a place called Bhoothathankettu in Kerala.

Jul 6, 2022 • Vivek

June 2022

The Only Way To Make This Life Matter

There are those moments when a stray line from an actor's script grabs your attention by the collar, causes you to scramble and pause the show, rewind…

Jun 19, 2022 • Vivek

Hare and the Tortoise- Improvised and Adapted for the 21st Century

The bet happened before I even got out of my car.

Jun 11, 2022 • Vivek

May 2022

The Struggles of Novice Creators−Discovering One's Voice

I gently shut the laptop and stared at the ceiling fan which was spinning with a clacket-clack noise.

May 28, 2022 • Vivek

The Struggles of Novice Creators−Perfectionism

In 2009, the world seemed to turn its wheels as access to stable and affordable home-internet exploded in Tier 2 cities of urban India, and shrunk the…

May 28, 2022 • Vivek