What Should Remain Mine?
A book in progress
When AI can increasingly think and act for us, what should we hand over—and what deserves to remain ours?
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The forces that shape us. The lives we build.
Books and essays exploring how technology, behavior, other people, and our own assumptions shape how we think, choose, act, and become.
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What Should Remain Mine?
How to Delegate, Collaborate, and Think for Yourself in the Age of AI
Deveendra MurmuForthcoming
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What Should Remain Mine?
How to Delegate, Collaborate, and Think for Yourself in the Age of AI
AI can increasingly write, analyze, advise, and perform tasks for us. But deciding what to hand over is not simply a question of what technology can do.
What should we delegate? When should we collaborate? And what should remain ours—not because machines cannot do it, but because doing it matters to who we become?
What Should Remain Mine? explores these questions through a practical framework: Delegate, Collaborate, Retain.
The books
Three books. Three human questions.
My books explore different parts of a larger question: What is shaping the life we are building—and how consciously are we participating in what comes next?
Why We Don't Do What We Know
A book in progress
Why can we know what matters, genuinely intend to do it, and still behave differently?
Whose Life Is This?
A book in progress
How do other people's expectations become part of what we want—and which voices deserve influence?
About the author
“Not to promise complete control, but to help us see more clearly.”
A note from Deveendra
I write about familiar human contradictions.
Why do we sometimes know what matters but fail to act on it? When technology can do more of our thinking, what should remain ours? How much of what we want has been shaped by other people's expectations?
These questions look different on the surface, but they share something underneath: our lives are shaped by forces we do not entirely choose or always notice.
My writing explores those forces—not to promise complete control, but to help us understand them more clearly and become more deliberate about the lives we build.
See more clearly. Choose more deliberately.
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