Author: vinodnarayan
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Where Are We Headed?:
The question is simple. The answer might take us a lifetime to find. And perhaps most of us will be nearing the end of our lives by the time we figure it out. That is why I think we need both a long-term and a short-term outlook on life. If we stretch the long term…
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Collaboration in the age of AI
AI may make us more productive individually. But I think it will make collaboration even more important. The reason is simple: things are changing too quickly for any of us to keep up alone. New tools, capabilities and ways of working are emerging constantly. What one person learns today could change how another person approaches…
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The Art of Being Ordinary
In my twenties, I knew someone who told me that we should not settle for an ordinary life. So many people live ordinary lives, he said, and we should strive for something extraordinary. At that time, I never asked him what an extraordinary life meant. Looking back now, I feel there is perhaps nothing more…
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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…
