The Last 10 Feet

Photo by Micah & Sammie Chaffin on Unsplash Pin drops in the road You apologize again The gap grows wider. The Last 10 Feet Decline doesn’t announce itself dramatically. Rot sets in slowly; a little less care, a little more friction. I wrote this post last year, days after returning from a trip to Singapore and India. The 7-year gap where I sequestered myself to North America made my visit to Asia stark! It felt like an alternate reality — one with a functional approach to adopting technology into life. It is almost as if they still care about how the human experience. ...

February 8, 2026 · 4 min · Shivanand Velmurugan