Changes to this site, newest first. Changes to meaning and new essays are shown first; site and design work has its own view. Small fixes to spelling, layout or code are not always listed.

Changelog

  • SiteReworked Operating principles and moved it from /commitments (the old address redirects). Each commitment now says how we keep it and how you can check; added how a correction happens, where we fall short, and five diagrams, and said what “no tracking” covers.
  • SiteFonts are now served from this site instead of Google Fonts, so reading a page no longer sends your IP address to Google. Updated the privacy policy to match.
  • SiteReworked First principles: each belief now says where it comes from (Madhyasth Darshan, our reading or our proposal), why we hold it and what would show we are wrong. Softened three lines that read as proven, added “What we don’t believe”, checked the references against the books, and added seven diagrams.
  • SiteSaid plainly who stands behind the site. K4M2A is a group of people working together; its legal home is K4M2A Foundation, a not-for-profit (Section 8) company registered in India, which publishes this website and develops Earth & Us. K4M2 AI is a separate company, and Dhee and CoSeeker are run by their own teams. Updated About, Privacy, the Press kit, Our work and the FAQ.
  • SiteContinued the review. Added a short route to the Quickstart; more questions to the FAQ; a way to send a correction, counterexample or field report straight away on Contribute; and worked examples, clearly marked as illustrative, to How to calculate enough for a family and How should a business measure success? Qualified claims in more than twenty further essays, explained the difference between a translation, a paraphrase and an application on References, and gave this changelog a view of changes to meaning.
  • SiteActed on an outside review of the whole site. About twenty essays now separate what Madhyasth Darshan holds from what we have checked, and soften claims stated more absolutely than the evidence allows; each one published before today lists what changed. Practices can now be done from the Practices page alone. Earth & Us now says plainly what is available now, what is in development and what is not yet available, and “Impact” panels are now called “Intended impact”.
  • SitePublished Practices: every essay’s “protocol to try” in one place, grouped by layer. The six essays for builders now have one too.
  • SiteUpdated how we describe Dhee to match its own site: Humane AI, an AI of definite conduct.
  • SiteEssays published when the site opened are now dated November 7, 2026, the day it went live. Some had earlier dates from when they were drafted.
  • SiteUpdated The spec to version 0.2: two ways of weighing, definite conduct and how to measure it, drawn largely from Dhee’s Humane AI research.
  • SitePublished The spec, version 0.1: the four goals written down with definitions, evidence and failure modes.
  • SitePublished Drishti: the architecture and the infrastructure.
  • New essayPublished Longtermism Without Fear.
  • New essayPublished Prosperity Without Growth at All Costs.
  • New essayPublished Happiness That Lasts at Work.
  • New essayPublished Enough as a Climate Strategy.
  • New essayPublished Beyond Engagement: What Should a Product Count?.
  • New essayPublished What Should AI Be Aligned To?.
  • Essay changeHow to Truly Rest: Allowed that a resolved gap can reopen when circumstances change, and added a way to rest when something can’t be resolved yet.
  • Essay changeHow to Compete Without Envy: Marked the tailors’ story as an illustration, acknowledged that unequal opportunity can be real, and made help an offer rather than something imposed.
  • Essay changeHow to Tell Nourishing from Exploiting: Made clear that the line about anxious people taking describes behaviour, not people who are struggling.
  • Essay changeHow to Remove the Roots of Conflict: Presented the five roots as a lens to test, put safety before looking at yourself, and added a “something else” option to the practice.
  • Essay changeHow Should We Spend What We Earn?: Clarified that dependence, as a kind of waste, does not mean relying on others or receiving help, and defined the columns in the practice.
  • Essay changeHow to Make a Good Decision: Six Ways of Seeing: Removed a prediction that plastic would be banned next year, noted that paper and jars have effects of their own, and made the practice list all six ways of seeing.
  • Essay changeHow Can People from Different Communities Live as One Society?: Marked the comparison between war materials and ordinary needs as the book’s view, not a current measurement, and acknowledged that faith, language and custom can be deep commitments, not surface differences.
  • Essay changeWhat Does Each Relationship Ask of Us?: Made clear that the values are hoped for, not owed, that gratitude or obedience can’t be demanded by whoever has authority, and that the seven relationships are a way to look rather than a complete list.
  • Essay changeHow Do Rights and Duties Fit Together?: Reworded step 4 so it no longer suggests rights are earned: rights in law belong to everyone; what widens with ability is the freedom to decide within relationships.
  • Essay changeHow to Make a Community Safe: Said that noticing people early must not become watching or labelling them, and that shared reserves can use fewer resources rather than always do.
  • Essay changeHow to Celebrate What Matters: Made the look back optional, said joy is reason enough to celebrate, and that nobody has to speak in front of others.
  • Essay changeHow to Settle a Dispute So Both Sides Are Satisfied: Acknowledged what courts do, and said the steps aim for both sides to be satisfied without promising it, need willing participants, and allow that some relationships should end.
  • Essay changeHow Can a Village Produce What It Needs?: Marked the soil claims as the plan’s, to be checked locally, and said that local production is not automatically better than buying from outside.
  • Essay changeHow to Make Things Last for the Next Generation: Clarified the line about a tool kept to oneself, and added what a shared tool store needs to agree first.
  • Essay changeHow Much Should We Take from the Earth?: Separated fuels from metals: surface energy needs mined materials, so the practical step for metals is to mine as little new as possible and keep what is mined in use. Marked the books’ account of the earth’s balance as their own, and made the diagram match.
  • Essay changeHow Should Things Be Priced?: Presented the principles as a proposal rather than an account of how markets work, acknowledged the information prices carry and the costs a fair price must cover, and softened the claims about scarcity.
  • Essay changeHow to Organise a Village So Every Family Has Enough: Said that cheap elections alone don’t prevent capture, and that the plan should start as a small, voluntary pilot with each household’s consent.
  • Essay changeHow to Design a School: Softened the description of conventional schooling so it doesn’t suggest schools only prepare exam takers and consumers.
  • Essay changeHow to Decide What to Produce: Listed the five questions in the practice and presented them as a first check, not a final verdict, with hard cases such as medicines and services compared rather than scored.
  • Essay changeHow Should a Business Measure Success?: Added an illustrative one-page report with a starting point for each measure, how often to review it and who gathers it, and noted that the measures are proposals, not validated indicators.
  • Essay changeHow Should a Business Measure Success?: Listed the five questions in the practice, suggested asking colleagues privately, and said staff should be able to answer without being identified.
  • Essay changeHow to Calculate Enough for a Family: Added an illustrative worked example with figures, explained how to avoid double-counting reserves, long-lasting things and what the family makes for itself, and allowed for seasonal and occasional needs.
  • Essay changeHow to Calculate Enough for a Family: Spelled out the eight lines in the practice so it can be done on its own.
  • Essay changeMadhyasth Matrix: The Matrix in the Light of Madhyasth Darshan: Presented the film as a lens we read it through, not a precise confirmation of the philosophy, and noted that the essay discusses the whole trilogy.
  • Essay changeHow Can Eight Billion People Share One Earth?: Turned the claim that imposed unity always fails into a historical argument about what has usually happened.
  • Essay changeHow Much Should We Work?: Added that a full life needs rest and play that need no justification, and that many long days are not chosen, so the question there is what would lighten them.
  • Essay changeHow Much Should We Work?: Defined L, B and N in the practice and allowed activities to fit more than one.
  • Essay changeHow to Live in a Relationship with Nature: Made clear that returning some material doesn’t by itself make an activity sustainable, and that effects far away still need measuring.
  • Essay changeHow Do We Measure Progress?: Said that numbers and conversation should check each other rather than one replacing the other, offered private answers in the practice, and reworded the opening line so it doesn’t sound like ranking people.
  • Essay changeHow to Create a Shared Purpose: Allowed that a group can share a limited purpose while keeping different values, made the freedom to decline part of how a purpose becomes shared, and removed the promise of a shared purpose within a month.
  • Essay changeRespect Doesn’t Need Sameness: Added that respect doesn’t depend on finding how a difference completes us: it can also mean leaving room, keeping a boundary and disagreeing with dignity.
  • Essay changeWhat Was I Assuming Just Before I Reacted?: Qualified the lines on pressure and busyness, and added that checking an assumption by asking is for when it is safe to ask.
  • Essay changeThe Person, or the Picture?: Allowed that protecting concentration or keeping a deadline can be care, and that asking can confirm a harmful picture, in which case keeping distance is fair.
  • Essay changeWelcome the Counterexample: Softened a claim about how every crowd chooses.
  • Essay changeThe Test of Understanding Is How You Live: Put the caution beside the central test: conduct also depends on health, means and circumstance, so understanding can’t be read straight off it. Softened two absolute lines.
  • Essay changeHow to Make Happiness Last: Replaced the instruction that returning unhappiness means the question isn’t understood yet. A practice that doesn’t help may be the practice’s failure, or need care, help or changed conditions. Presented the readings of feelings as ways to look, not diagnoses.
  • Essay changeCan I Be Safe If You Are Not?: Separated fear of a real, present threat from fear built on an imagined future, and added watching repeated conduct to the practice.
  • Essay changeHow Much Is Enough?: Marked the claims about money, collecting and the economy as the darshan’s account or our suggestion, rather than settled fact.
  • Essay changeRules or Relationships?: Recognised the rules that coordinate, record agreements and protect people, rather than calling every rule a failed conversation.
  • Essay changeWhat If the Philosophers Ran the World?: Marked the definition of philosophy as the one we explore, allowed that disagreement can be how understanding grows, and added that enforceable rules are still needed where someone is being harmed.