365 DaysWrapped
No algorithm compiled this one. I tipped out a year of essays, manuscripts, bookmarks and playlists and sorted them by hand. Same questions, a braver year. Every tile below opens a door, and every door opens in a new tab.
21 Sep 2025 to 21 Sep 2026
11 Themes
Observe, question, build, write, repeat. Open any theme for the evidence and the links.
Word cloud of the year
Fifty words, sized by how widely and deeply each ran through the year. Pick a word to see why it's there.
Each word scores out of 100: breadth across six lanes (40%), volume of output and attention (35%), and depth of finished work (25%). Lanes are E essays, B books, A ANTIGEN, R reading, M music and X explorations.
18 essays, 12 months
Each block is one essay, its height set by word count. Hover for the title, click to read it.
Plus five finished essays, 14,144 words, still behind the padlock. Three of them take Newton's laws to culture.
- Newton's First Law and the Things That Refuse to Die
- Newton's Second Law and the Lie of the Trigger
- Newton's Third Law and the Strange Afterlife of Cultural Energy
- What Your End-of-the-World Playlist Says About You
- Hacking Cultural Resonance: A Music Festival and Darjeeling
Three manuscripts
The argument, the confession and the practice. All three finished this year.
Why brands, cities and playlists drift toward the same beige middle, and how to build an immune system against it: sensing, antibodies, immunity.
Visit books.sidht.comHigh-agency people who keep performing while something quietly gives way. Coins performance-preserved depression and Command Mode.
Visit books.sidht.comPresence for urban dwellers. Surrender without resignation, stillness within movement, wholeness without completion.
Visit airn.inTen things I built
Not just written about — shipped, or at least switched on. The machinery behind the arguments.
Insurgent OS
Three AI typologies, four phases and six named tools — Brief Mutator, Detonator, System Interrogator, Collider, Pattern Library, Reality Engine. The algorithm is the utility; humanity is the luxury.
Visit 1antigen.com ↗ANTIGEN Canvas
A strategic intelligence platform built for AI-era synthesis and decision-making — where the post-algorithm strategy work actually runs.
Visit 1antigen.com ↗NeuroSaathi
India's first AI-powered special needs care navigation platform, for families of neurodivergent children. Taken from concept to a live alpha this year.
Visit neurosaathi.com ↗Pathogen Lab
Ninety-five neologisms coined for the ANTIGENERIC vocabulary, turned into a playable interactive game on the experimental wing of the site.
Visit play.sidht.com ↗worth.sidht.com
Reoriented this year into a home for top-rated books, curated bookmarks and public Spotify playlists — the taste behind the reading list.
Visit worth.sidht.com ↗CXO Career Sidekick
A subscription AI knowledge platform for Indian CXOs anxious about AI and digital transformation — the executive-strain reading turned into a product idea.
Living Stories
A serialised fiction platform with timed beats and reader-shaped storylines — narrative structure treated as a system, not just a craft.
Rudy's Online Tangram
A polished, single-file HTML5 tangram puzzle — built for the pleasure of building something small and finished.
Network Dashboards
Interactive LinkedIn network-analysis dashboards, built for himself and for contacts — reading relationship maps the way the essays read cities.
A personal AI stack
The sidssw and Yamini Singh writing-style skills, NotebookLM design prompts for the brutalist-editorial system, and a custom RAG built on Opus 4.6 for the Abhaya essay.
Soundtrack
1989 melancholy and nine-minute melodic house. Spotify thinks my year was The Cure. Spotify is not wrong.
Top artists
On repeat
Playlists I made
The prologue of When Lions Get the Blues is called The Playlist. The epilogue is called Armstrong and The Cure. The symmetry wasn't planned. Read Why Do All Songs Sound the Same for the argument.
Also producing
Not just listening this year — mixing. As Voxnocte, the tracks ran to jungle and psy edits of devotional vocals and garage remixes of Nepali pop: a Bhairava Stava psy edit, a Bodhi Das Baul jungle edit, a Ramta Jogi garage remix. Hear them on SoundCloud.
What I was reading
A few from this year's layer of the reading list. The full archive has 940 links going back to 2013.
Gartner found that more than half of C-suite leaders are likely to leave within two years, and 27% within six months. I saved four pieces on executive strain on a single November afternoon. Seven months later there was a book about lions.
Built and running
The places this year lives, and the doors into each of them.
A different algorithm is a kinder world
The machines helped this year. They drafted, sorted, remembered and built. They could not tell me why I kept writing about cities I had left, why the finished books wait at the door with their coats on, or why the answer to every question seemed to be another question, asked more bravely. That part stays mine.
Ideas connect disciplines. Curiosity keeps them human. Better questions ahead.
Sid Out.
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