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AI as Modern Sadhana

April 28, 2026 · 5 min read

Treating large language models as a daily practice — not a shortcut, but a mirror that sharpens your own clarity.

A sadhana is a deliberate, repeated practice. A guru once said that the tool you sit with daily becomes your second mind. For a generation of founders, that tool is the chat window.

Used carelessly, AI is a hall of mirrors that flatters you back into mediocrity. Used as sadhana, it becomes a Socratic friend — one that asks better questions than you would have alone.

Begin each morning with a single prompt: 'What is the most truthful thing I could publish today about my work?' Refine the answer with the model until the sentence makes you slightly uncomfortable. That discomfort is the signal. Publish from there.

AI does not replace the seeker. It compresses the distance between the question and the work.