AN INTRODUCTION / OCTOBER 2026 / NEW DELHI

An atlas
of work.

I'm Sahil Tayal, a writer, independent researcher, creative technologist and perfumer working across psychology, organisations, education, human development and the craft of making.

The thread is curiosity about people: how we act, how we learn, how we relate—and what happens when ideas are built into something you can actually use.

A PORTFOLIO OF QUESTIONS, NOT A CLAIM THAT ALL QUESTIONS ARE SOLVED.

FIGURE 01
INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICE
NOT TO SCALE
WORDS / SYSTEMS
PEOPLE / SENSES
↓
01HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
02LEARNING & WORK
03CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY
04SCENT & EXPRESSION
01 / A USEFUL, INCOMPLETE BIOGRAPHY

A little context.
Not a mythology.

A life has more dimensions than a timeline. These are factual waypoints and themes that help explain the work—not a complete account of everything experienced or learned.

“I don't think a person should have to become one perfectly coherent career story to be useful.”

I studied commerce at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, and completed an MBA at JBIMS. Professional work exposed me to organisational systems, roles and the distance between formal descriptions and lived reality. Everyday observation in family retail adds another laboratory: one with actual people, constraints and consequences.

Writing, research, small interactive experiments, and perfumery are different ways of asking related questions. The goal is not to prove expertise in every domain. It is to make connections carefully and turn some of them into useful work.

FOR THE LESS FORMAL INTRODUCTION ↗
SELECTED WAYPOINTS / NOT A COMPREHENSIVE CV
EDUCATION

Commerce and management

Commerce studies at Sri Venkateswara College, followed by the MBA programme at Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS).

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

Work inside organisations

Roles across professional services, operations and work-focused contexts informed ongoing questions about human behaviour and institutions.

FIELD OBSERVATION

Small commerce, large questions

Family retail offers a practical vantage point on attention, incentives, coordination, customer behaviour and the reality behind textbook assumptions.

2026 / CURRENT EXPLORATIONS

An expanding public laboratory

Essays, experimental websites, the Identity–Action Gap model, creative technology and House of Venus fragrance work.

Experience is evidence of participation and learning—not proof that every model presented here is validated.

02 / PROJECTS WITH AN ACTUAL POINT

Select a question.
Find its world.

A curated selection of existing work. These addresses had HTTP responses in the owner's 26 October 2026 Live Domain Atlas; availability of the deeper browser experience is not guaranteed by that check.

PRACTICAL TAKEAWAY / FREE PDF

Download the Field Guide to Interdisciplinary Making

A usable method for turning one worthwhile question into an essay, a prototype, an experiment or a thoughtful collaboration.

DOWNLOAD THE FIELD GUIDE ↓
03 / A MORE HELPFUL WAY TO BROWSE

Your curiosity
is the compass.

Choose what interests you; the site recommends a short, understandable trail through actual work. It isn't profiling you and it doesn't save your choices.

CURATED TRAIL GENERATOR / CHOOSE ONE

What are you thinking about lately?

Different starting points lead to different projects. None is prescribed as the correct one.

A SMALL READING TRAIL

Start somewhere interesting.

A good introduction begins with a question you already care about. Select an interest to generate two contextual doorways and a question to take with you.

04 / A WORKING METHOD, NOT A CREED

How the work
gets made.

Interdisciplinary work only earns its keep when it stays honest about what it borrows, what it tests and what it does not know.

01 / NOTICE

Begin with a concrete tension.

Find something real that resists easy explanation. Describe the situation before reaching for a flattering theory.

02 / CONNECT

Borrow carefully.

Read across domains. Explain which ideas came from others, what is established, and which connections are your own hypotheses.

03 / MAKE & REVISE

Build something inspectable.

Write, prototype, test assumptions, notice failures and revise. A compelling interface is not a substitute for valid evidence.

THE THREE-LAYER EVIDENCE LABEL

Facts, interpretations, possibilities.

Readers should be able to tell whether a statement is a documented biographical fact, an interpretation of experience, or a proposal that still needs testing. That distinction becomes more important, not less, when the design looks compelling.

  1. Document it. Where does this claim come from?
  2. Interpret it. Which other explanations could fit?
  3. Test or revise it. What would change your mind?
NOT ALL QUESTIONS HAVE ANSWERS YET
Is the Identity–Action Gap scientifically validated?

It is an independent theoretical proposal under development. Its elements should be assessed against existing behavioural research, and its predictions need careful empirical testing.

Is Sahilverse an academic institution?

No. It is a personal and creative research portfolio. It may contain educational material and citations, but that does not confer institutional or peer-reviewed status.

Does a perfumery experience measure emotion?

No. Fragrance is an artistic and sensory medium here. Stories about moods and memory should not be confused with medical or psychological measurement.

Are all linked experiments polished and stable?

No. This is a living archive. Some projects are prototypes; links and functionality can change. The main Sahilverse directory has additional status information.

05 / OPEN INTELLECTUAL DEBTS

Ideas have
ancestors.

Three readings that help frame the territory. These sources inform the questions; they do not independently validate Sahil's personal hypotheses or products.

06 / COLLABORATION / NOT A CONTACT-DETAILS HUNT

Build a better
question together.

Research exchanges, educational experiments, creative technology, writing and fragrance workshops are natural areas for conversation. A good collaboration has a defined problem and mutual value.

“If the idea is worth sharing, let's be clear about what each of us hopes to learn.”

This is an invitation, not a promise of availability or a universal service offer. Use the small composer to create an email draft locally in your mail app; no message is sent from this page.

ALTERNATIVE
EMAIL DIRECTLY: SAHIL@SAHILTAYAL.COM ↗
COLLABORATION NOTE / LOCAL COMPOSER

The form does not store or transmit data. Your email app opens only when you choose.

THE CORRECT WAY TO GET LOST

The explanation is here.
The adventures are elsewhere.

If you know what you came looking for, this page has done its job. If you don't, choose a curious doorway rather than memorising a list of links.