Deveendra Murmu

Books by Deveendra Murmu

Books

Different questions. A shared curiosity.

Each book stands on its own. Together, they explore how we can better understand the influences around us and participate more deliberately in the lives we build.

Featured · Book one

Forthcoming

What Should Remain Mine?

How to Delegate, Collaborate, and Think for Yourself in the Age of AI

As AI becomes increasingly capable, the question is no longer simply what it can do for us. It is what role we want to give it.

This book introduces three ways of approaching AI—Delegate, Collaborate, and Retain—to help readers decide when to hand over a task, when to think alongside technology, and when the human work itself matters.

It is neither a rejection of AI nor an invitation to use it for everything. It is an exploration of how to use powerful tools without losing sight of our own judgment, capabilities, relationships, and responsibility.

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Two more questions

Independent works in a larger conversation.

02 / forthcoming

Why We Don't Do What We Know

The Hidden Loop Between Knowing, Doing, and Becoming

We often know what we should do. We may even genuinely want to do it. Yet when the moment arrives, something else happens.

This book explores the forces competing with knowledge and intention—including emotion, habit, environment, reward, competing desires, and the meanings we attach to our goals.

Rather than treating every failure to act as a character flaw, it asks what happens between intention and action, and how our actions help shape who we become.

03 / forthcoming

Whose Life Is This?

How Other People's Expectations Shape Who We Are, What We Want, and the Choices We Make

Other people influence us long before we begin making independent decisions. Their expectations can become part of our ambitions, values, identities, and ideas about success.

But the answer is not simply to ignore everyone and follow an untouched inner self.

This book examines how social influence works, why inherited values are not necessarily false, and how we can become more discerning about which voices deserve influence in the lives we build.

The larger conversation

Influence, judgment, and the choices through which we become who we are.

Technology, behavior, and other people's expectations may seem like different subjects. Yet each raises a question about influence, judgment, and the choices through which we become who we are. These books are independent works, connected by a continuing investigation into the forces shaping human life.

A continuing conversation

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