Author: vinodnarayan
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When Roles Change with AI
What happens to our roles when AI changes how work gets done? I think many of our roles and titles will be impacted by AI. Not necessarily because the work disappears, but because the way the work gets done will change. Take the Scrum Master role as an example. I have personally been uncomfortable with…
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Real Work is Before Planning
One thing I am reminded of after every planning cycle is how much work happens before the planning event itself. When people look at a successful planning event, they often see the agenda, discussions, and final commitments. What is less visible is the preparation that made those conversations possible. Planning is rarely successful because of…
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The Hidden Cost of Misalignment
One thing I have noticed over the years is that the cost of misalignment rarely arrives as a dramatic failure. More often, it accumulates through small moments of friction that seem insignificant on their own. It shows up in small ways. A conversation that needs to happen twice. A decision that remains unclear. A dependency…
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Away from Work for 3 days
I spent three weeks in India on vacation. When I returned to work, something surprised me. I’ve been away from work before. I’ve come back to overflowing inboxes, new priorities, and projects that had moved forward without me. This time felt different. It wasn’t the volume of work that caught my attention. It felt as…
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Meaningful Workday
Sometimes I wonder whether I am making progress or simply becoming better at being busy. Every Thursday I will post something. The image will drive the post and it will be my Throwback Thursday moment. Sometimes the image will have some connections sometimes it wont have. I know this is not Facebook… it is LinkedIn..…
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The Human Advantage of AI
The more I try to understand the progress of AI, the more I find myself thinking less about what it can do and more about what it asks of us. As we start using it to analyze information, write, create, summarize, reason through problems, and automate work, where does our human element stand ? Yes…
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Wasteland by Oliver Franklin-Wallis
Wasteland by Oliver Franklin-Wallis made me think differently about something we rarely think about once it leaves our hands… Waste There is really no such place as “away.” When we throw something out, it disappears from our sight, but not from the world. Everything we discard has to go somewhere and be dealt with by…
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Loneliness is not always Alone
There comes a point in life when you feel alone and realize it is not because you are physically alone. It is because you have become disconnected from yourself. No one can do that work for us. People can support us, but the journey of finding ourselves is one we must take alone. Some of…
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Predictability and Clarity
Clarity on what a team can realistically take on. Clarity on dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs. All of these are critical to a team’s success. When teams lack clarity, everything starts to feel urgent. Work keeps getting added. Priorities keep shifting. People overcommit because no one wants to say no. Eventually stress becomes the new operating…
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Between Fear And Awareness We Create Our Life
Last weekend an interesting thought surfaced. We are probably the only animals that do not step outside our shelters fearing that another animal might eat us alive. That is part of how humanity evolved, and in many ways it is a beautiful thing. But with that evolution also came the awareness that death is inevitable.…
