About

(This foundation is based upon philosophical principles on this page: https://thelayman.blog/2026/05/31/my-life-philosophy/ )

Goal of the foundation:

• Reduce human-caused suffering: increase peace, reduce conflict of all sorts
• Increase human happiness and flourishing

Approach:

• Transform public behavior to be more empathetic, kind.
• Promote self-awareness as a tool to improve our own happiness and contentment

Some of the actions which we will undertake to implement this approach:

• Politics
  • Publish principled stance on topics of world interest (which are critical for peace and are creating conflicts) that promotes benefit for all and are created with deep analysis
  • These views hopefully gain more weight as people realize the depth of understanding and the impartial goal of world flourishing
• Social policies
  • Make social service mandatory of all medium to large companies
  • Improve domestic worker policies in India and elsewhere to improve their rights and reduce exploitation
• Share broadly (i.e. educate) philosophical principles that increase happiness from within and how kind and empathetic connections create a happier world (basically my guiding principles that I shared earlier with you)
  • Media of communication
    • Social media : Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Tiktok etc
    • Publishing well researched articles
    • TV Ads
    • Long form: TV series / movies
    • books
    • Physical: Hoardings, pamphlets
  • Special educational workshops for critical decision makers that impart these principles (political leaders, etc)
  • Leverage research in this area of how to do this (for example, I see a department in UPenn that researches how to change behavior dynamics on a large scale: https://normsandbehavior.sas.upenn.edu), working collaboratively with university centers like this
  • Infuence Children education curriculums across the world to inculcate these ideas
• Reduce wars (yes big, impossible goal; but we will try to make a dent in this)
  • Publish articles / educate / engage media on how to resolve conflicts that are causing wars, make them deeply researched, data driven, create scenario simulations to prove they may work etc
  • Work with UN or otherwise to try to create a goal for countries to think about global wins than just their own, now that the world is not in a state where there needs to be a fight for resources. We have enough resources and technologies to make sure the entire human population leads a happy life.
  • Educate general people to spread the view that there should be a global proposerity view in countries’ decisions
  • Engage with governments to resolve conflicts (very difficult)
• Community / chapters (“Leave the world a better place” community)
  • Create a badge that people can adopt and share on their social media
    • The badge will be a pledge on something like this — “I pledge to leave the world a better place for everyone” – and will have a link to the foundation website’s pledge page. The pledge page will share a brief message about what it means (that — I will look after my own affairs, but will also strive to make the world a better place for everyone )
  • Publish acts of kindness and social change brought about by pledgers
  • Community get-togethers where people Meditate, take activities to serve the society (community service etc)
  • The community folks will
  • Share playlist of songs that increase happiness (meditative, calming, soothing music – including devotional music) — as music can play a very important role in feeling happy and emotional regulation with causing side effects like alcohol/drugs)
• Solve local/regional problems that are human-caused (leaving other types of problems to other non-profit organizations)