Most of my life I spent acquiring — skills, opinions, identities. More is better. More knowledge, more productivity, more self. Then at some point the pile became noise.
Going Zero isn't about giving up. It's about subtracting until what remains is actually you. Meditation taught me that most of what I call 'me' is just habituated chatter — old stories running on loop.
You are not the thought. You are the one who notices the thought.
The practice
I sit for 20 minutes each morning. No phone, no agenda. Just watching what arises. At first it felt like a waste of time — productive people do things. But 'doing things' from a noisy mind just produces more noise.
The Vedantic term is Neti, neti — not this, not this. You subtract every label until something undeniable is left. That remainder is worth finding.
Why I write about this here
This is a technical blog. But ignoring the inner life while building things in the outer world is a recipe for building the wrong things, fast. So this category stays.