What Should Remain Mine?
Technology, delegation, and the human work that still matters.
About the author
About Deveendra Murmu
Some questions become more interesting the longer you live with them.
Why can we know exactly what we should do and still not do it?
When technology can increasingly think and act for us, what should we hand over—and what should remain ours?
How much of what we want was shaped by other people's expectations?
I write about questions like these.
They look different on the surface, but they share something underneath: our lives are shaped by forces we do not entirely choose or always notice.
I am interested in what happens when we make those influences more visible—not so that we can escape them, but so that we can become more deliberate about the lives we build.
Professional background
A systems-oriented curiosity applied to ordinary human contradictions.
Deveendra Murmu is a nonfiction author with an engineering background and more than three decades of experience in information technology.
His writing explores questions at the intersection of technology, human behavior, social influence, judgment, and everyday life.
Drawing on research, lived experience, and a systems-oriented curiosity, he examines familiar human contradictions and challenges explanations that are too simple for the problems they claim to solve.
His books invite readers to understand the forces shaping their choices and become more deliberate participants in the lives they build.
The books
Three questions I keep returning to.
Why We Don't Do What We Know
The gap between knowledge, intention, action, and becoming.
Whose Life Is This?
Influence, expectation, identity, and the voices we allow to shape us.
Reader and media inquiries
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Email: hello@devmmurmu.com
A continuing conversation
See more clearly. Choose more deliberately.
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