# Rao Zaeem

> Full-stack developer, founder-engineer, and writer. Building systems that compound.

Personal website of Rao Zaeem — an honest record of self-improvement. The guiding philosophy: healing by bringing awareness, progress by intentional effort. Writing it down, clearly.

Online, I use a different handle depending on the platform: **@zeystiv** on GitHub, X, LinkedIn, Medium, Daily.dev, and Substack, **@i.am.raozaeem** on Instagram and Threads, and **@raozaeem.com** on Bluesky.

## Connect

- [GitHub](https://github.com/zeystiv) — @zeystiv.
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/zeystiv) — @zeystiv.
- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/zeystiv) — @zeystiv.
- [Medium](https://medium.com/@zeystiv) — @zeystiv.
- [Daily.dev](https://daily.dev/zeystiv) — @zeystiv.
- [Instagram](https://instagram.com/i.am.raozaeem) — @i.am.raozaeem.
- [Threads](https://www.threads.com/@i.am.raozaeem) — @i.am.raozaeem.
- [Systivia Community](https://systivia.com/dis)
- [Substack](https://zeystiv.substack.com/) — @zeystiv.
- [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/raozaeem.com) — @raozaeem.com.

## About

- [Home](/) — The landing page: the site's philosophy and purpose, a feed of recent writing, a highlight of the latest project, and a newsletter signup.

## Lab

- [Lab overview](/lab) — Portfolio of projects, toolkit, and everyday setup.
- [Systivia](/lab/systivia) — An identity-driven habit tracker for Android that turns daily actions into proof of who you're becoming.

## Writing

- [Blog](/blog) — All writings and essays, newest first.
- [An Effective Way To Build Habits Using Dopamine Detox](https://systivia.com/blog/dopamine-detox-for-habits) — Published on systivia.com.
- [While Waiting For You](https://medium.com/@zeystiv/while-waiting-for-you-1673f5685df1) — Published on Medium.
- [The Correct Way To Approach Self-Improvement](https://raozaeem.com/blog/way-to-self-improvement) — Published on this site.
- [How To Stop Living In Your Mind](https://raozaeem.com/blog/stop-living-in-your-mind) — Published on this site.
- [Notes to Self](https://raozaeem.com/blog/notes-to-self) — Published on this site.
- [Mobile App - Systivia: Identity-Led Habits](https://raozaeem.com/lab/systivia) — Case study, hosted here.
- [You Don't Build Habits, You Build Identity](https://systivia.com/blog/identity-based-habits) — Published on systivia.com.
- [The Emotional Cost Of Doom Scrolling](https://medium.com/@zeystiv/the-emotional-cost-of-doom-scrolling-c479ef82575e) — Published on Medium.
- [Confronting My Inner Monsters Face To Face](https://medium.com/@zeystiv/confronting-my-inner-monsters-face-to-face-239460c10482) — Published on Medium.
- [Everything Seems Perfect Until It Wasn't](https://zeystiv.substack.com/p/everything-seems-perfect-until-it) — Published on Substack.
- [The Broken Path To Healing One's Self](https://medium.com/@zeystiv/the-broken-path-to-healing-ones-self-0788f565665f) — Published on Medium.
- [You Need To Create Systems, Not Just Goals](https://medium.com/@zeystiv/you-need-to-create-systems-not-just-goals-1349bd653e2e) — Published on Medium.
- [Being Autistic - My Journey Towards Being Proud Of Myself](https://medium.com/@zeystiv/being-autistic-my-journey-towards-being-proud-of-myself-2e8ebb45bc34) — Published on Medium.
- [My Journey To Coding From The Age Of 12](https://medium.com/@zeystiv/how-i-learned-to-code-from-the-age-of-12-c4967d116760) — Published on Medium.

## Newsletter

- [Newsletter](/newsletter) — Subscribe to Intentional Walk, the Substack edition, with an embedded signup form.
- [Intentional Walk on Substack](https://zeystiv.substack.com/) — The publication itself.
- [Intentional Walk RSS](https://zeystiv.substack.com/feed) — Feed of every post, for readers that prefer one.

## Site Structure

- [posts.json](/posts.json) — Machine-readable index of all writing, newest first.
- [sitemap.xml](/sitemap.xml) — XML sitemap of all pages.
- [robots.txt](/robots.txt) — Crawler rules.
- [opengraph-image](/opengraph-image) — Site-wide social share image.