Brain department
🧠 Organisational Behaviour Monkey
Investigates identity, agency, execution friction, human capital and why motivational posters do not reliably change behaviour.
Academic-ish public monkey →Field notes from the consciousness jungle · Delhi, Earth
ONE MONKEY.
MANY TABS.
Corporate monkey became shop-floor economist, psychology researcher, perfume alchemist, internet architect and occasional philosopher. Nobody told the monkey to pick a lane. So the monkey built a roundabout.
MBA.exe installedCuriosity: always ONIdentity: still becomingPeer review welcomeBananas ≠ meaning
Created by Sahil Tayal's unruly imagination. No monkeys were promoted to VP of Synergy during production.
✦ THINK DEEPLY ✦ SMELL BEAUTIFULLY ✦ QUESTION THE FRAME ✦ LOVE YOUR PEOPLE ✦ DO NOT WORSHIP LINKEDIN HEADLINES ✦ REPEAT ✦
01 / Field guide
What kind of monkey is this?
An interdisciplinary creature interested in the gap between who humans believe they are and what they actually do. The rest is an elaborate set of experiments with reality.
Nose department
🌹 Perfumery Monkey
Builds scents around moods, memories, emotional vocabulary and the astonishing power of smelling something and suddenly remembering 2014.
Enter House of Venus →Keyboard department
💻 Website Monkey
Discovers that a thought can become a working website. Proceeds to create several houses. Real estate development, but with HTML.
House of Mercury →Street department
🛒 Kirana Economist
Sees liquidity constraints, trust, price elasticity, festival demand and household security in a neighborhood grocery shop. Street → boardroom.
Read the shop-floor thesis →Pen department
✍️ Madman Decodes
Writes about modernity, meaning, consciousness, ambition, narrative capture, AI and the many elegant ways a monkey can misunderstand itself.
Read on Medium →Heart department
🫶 Community Monkey
Increasingly convinced that people are not networking assets, that relationships need reciprocity, and that a full life is not a KPI dashboard.
Explore Connection →02 / Origin story
From boardrooms to banana rooms.
A non-linear CV. Please do not attempt to force it into a standard corporate drop-down menu.
Education arc
Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi → professional experience including EY → MBA at Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS). The monkey learned the language of institutions.
Human behaviour obsession
Organisational behaviour, psychology and the question: why does knowing the right thing not automatically produce doing the right thing?
Ground-floor economics
Family kirana shop in Mehrauli: consumer decisions, seasonal demand, informal trust, and the real economy without a consulting slide deck.
Perfumery unlock
Bottle Your Mood and House of Venus: translating feelings into scent experiments. Art meets chemistry meets human memory.
Internet civilization begins
sahiltayal.online, House of Mercury, writing platforms and now this website. Monkey has discovered deploy buttons. Internet infrastructure is concerned.
“The street is not separate from the boardroom. The street is the foundation the boardroom tries to interpret.”
A theme developed in Sahil's public writing on neighborhood retail and economic observation.
03 / Interactive Thinking Lab
Conduct highly unlicensed monkey philosophy.
Real buttons, actual JavaScript, absolutely no claim that the following constitutes a validated psychometric instrument.
🐵 Monkey Thought Generator
Choose a research lens. Receive one question worth chewing instead of doomscrolling.
Monkey waits patiently. This is historically unusual.
Model in progress · not a published law
The Identity–Action Gap
Knowing who you want to be ≠ behaving that way. Identity, available energy, environment, skills and friction may interact. The interesting question is not “Why are people lazy?” but “What makes the desired action easier or harder to execute?”
Example: “I identify as a writer, but the blank page has hired a security guard.”
Anti-delusion protocol
🦊 The Fox Audit
AI can become an echo chamber. The fox periodically asks: What evidence would change my mind?
04 / Houses & experiments
Welcome to the monkey multiverse.
The mothership
🌍 Sahil Tayal Online
Consciousness, writing, self-experimentation, projects and a person in perpetual revision.
Visit the main universe ↗Venus · scent & feeling
♀ House of Venus
Emotional literacy meets perfumery. Mood bottles, stories, connection, boundaries, liquid courage and other aromatic mischief.
Enter Venus ↗Mercury · thought & play
☿ House of Mercury
A scholarly, mischievous laboratory for ideas, mental models and intellectual experiments.
Enter Mercury ↗Venus annex
🧪 Bottle Your Mood
What if a scent were a sentence your nervous system could understand without words?
Explore mood alchemy ↗Research bench
📐 Identity–Action Gap
A developing behavioural framework exploring the friction between self-concept and execution. Hypotheses, not gospel.
Follow the research journey ↗This monkey's side quest
🐒 Monkey.EXE
The unprofessional homepage for a very serious commitment to curiosity. All systems normal; too many tabs open.
Return to the lab ↗05 / Reading jungle
Bananas for the cerebral cortex.
Actual public writing, plus doorways to the continuously evolving archive.
Medium · AI
I Fed My Life Story to AI for Months. Then I Asked It to Attack Me.
On narrative capture, intellectual companionship and why the best mirror occasionally needs to disagree.
Read essay ↗Medium · Psychology
The Scout, The Checker, and The Storm
A personal, metaphor-rich reflection on neurodivergence and social narratives; not medical guidance.
Read essay ↗LinkedIn · Retail
Observing India's Economy from the Shop Floor
Why a ₹10 sachet can teach you more about lived constraints than a glamorous business headline.
Read post ↗Medium · Archive
Madman Decodes
Meaning, philosophy, behavioural questions and attempts to decode the monkey without pretending the decoding is complete.
Browse Medium ↗Substack · Essays
The Substack Reading Room
Long-form dispatches for monkeys who believe a coherent argument is still worth reading.
Browse Substack ↗LinkedIn · Professional
The Public Research Notebook
Human capital, workplace behaviour, business and the intellectual life of the neighbourhood market.
Visit LinkedIn ↗06 / Operating philosophy
The monkey is not a productivity machine.
A life can be intellectually ambitious and still be allowed to be enjoyable.
The project is not to become an impressive LinkedIn statistic. It is to develop judgment, create things that matter, find good company, remain curious and appreciate the absurdity of being alive.
Non-negotiable jungle principles
Curiosity over certainty✓
Craft over empty status✓
Human connection over extraction✓
Evidence over mythology✓
Play over perpetual optimisation✓
Occasional monkey nonsenseMANDATORY
A note from the monkey's epistemology department: autobiographical details are selective, interpretations are provisional, and website jokes should not be submitted as empirical evidence to a journal.
07 / Escape hatches