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Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 18, 2026, 5:14 AM

Why you can’t stop scrolling – and how to stop.

Digital Ergonomics Make Distraction Harder We already understand physical ergonomics. If a chair hurts your back, change the chair. If a screen is too low, raise it. If a workstation forces your body into an awkward position, redesign the workstation. We do not normally tell...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 17, 2026, 2:04 PM

Your Daily Pill

The Spiritual Wellness Product. We Optimise Everything Except the Heart. We are living through an extraordinary wellness boom. We measure sleep. We track glucose. We count steps. We monitor heart-rate variability. We take magnesium for sleep, creatine for performance, omega-3 for health and vitamin D when...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 16, 2026, 5:19 AM

USPI Part 2 – Mind as a Public Good and Pathways.

Author’s note: In the previous article, the index was referred to as both UPSI and USPI while the naming was being refined. The final name used here is USPI — the ʿUmar Stewardship Performance Index. The underlying idea has...

Daria Nektorova

Sep 15, 2026, 6:39 PM

When Midlife Meets Immigration

I had spent years building the life I believed was right for me, raising a family and pursuing a career. Then I found myself looking at that life and wondering why it no longer felt like mine. How could...

Sep 15, 2026, 3:17 AM

Truth and Fiction about AI’s Recursive Self-Improvement

Self-improvement

And what a story about an alien zoo reveals about recursive self-improvement By Joe Nalven + Claude + Gemini Argument about recursive self-improvement is loud, and very little of it is about evidence. It is about process. Everyone in the argument...

Sep 15, 2026, 12:24 AM

Twenty-five years after 9/11

Twenty-five years after the Twin Towers fell, a reporter working on a story about our family’s 9/11 experience told me something that I had never realized: my son Jacob's first memory was breathing through a wet sleeve on the...

Talyah Ginsberg

Sep 15, 2026, 12:01 AM

Some of my defects are load-bearing

Phase 2,000,023 of the New Me Project We shofared our way into a New Year this weekend, and I emerged from it feeling less renewed than slightly flattened. Somewhere between judgement, repentance, prayer, promises, introspection, and an impressive amount of...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 14, 2026, 6:46 AM

On Dental and Digital Hygiene.

Dental and Digital Hygiene :- Brush Your Teeth. Brush Your Feed. There is a reason we brush our teeth: residue becomes plaque. What begins as something almost invisible can, if repeatedly left in place, become inflammation, decay and disease. Islam built...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 13, 2026, 4:57 AM

On Healing and Cure.

The Cure 1. Al-Fātiḥah: Ruqyah, Not Metaphor The clearest place to begin is not with a herb but with revelation. In Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, a group of the Prophet’s Companions encountered a tribal chief who had been bitten by a snake or stung...

Benny A. Benjamin

Sep 11, 2026, 7:02 PM

‘And He Saw It Was Good’: Borrowing God’s Method of Self-Evaluation

A small detail in the creation story is easy to read right past. After each stage of creation, the text pauses. God looks at what was just made and evaluates it. "It was good." On the third day, the...

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