Author: vinodnarayan
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330/365 An Award for simplicity
As I browse LinkedIn and I often see posts from people sharing their awards, accolades, achievements and accomplishments.. And I wonder what award I have received in my life. I don’t remember receiving any price or award throughout my school. No extracurricular activities, studies… nothing. I had not received one single thing. Except when everyone was given…
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329/365 What Podcasts do I listen to?
I think I first heard a podcast in 2012 Maybe. Then I dropped it for a year or so and then got back. I have been an active listener for around 8 years mostly listening while walking, driving and so on, just like other human beings. If I remember correctly (And I might have mentioned…
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328/365 What Works in How we work?
We all have our style of working. Some of the things in our style have been working for us. Or we think so. We also improve our styles and even make drastic changes if we think our style is working against us. Especially when we join a new place. When we join a new place…
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327/365 What to read and how?
How do you read what you need to read? Read and listen to be precise. A few months back I made a list of things I needed to read. Here is what I came up with and I knew all this would not work out. But I wanted to address the ‘HOW’ only after I figured…
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326/365 You will not get a job that you did not apply for !
Is this a true statement? I am sure there are people who would have received job enquiries for positions they have not applied for. And even got some of them. The job of a recruiter is ensuring open reqs reach the maximum number of people. That is a marketing effort by the company. But unless one…
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325/365 What I learn while cooking my own food
While cooking teaches us to respect the effort involved, it is more than that. I don’t know about you, but I like to cook. Yes there are times when I don’t feel like doing it. I am not a very planned cook. I am more of a ‘let us try this and see how it…
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324/365 I have started Counting my calorie intake
A few days back I was at an event and had been meeting friends after quite a long time. This was probably the first large function I attended. It was an event called Keralafest. It was organized by all the Malayali groups in the bay area. The idea was meeting friends and eating lots of food.…
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323/365 On a Teacher’s Appreciation Week
Last week was Teacher’s Appreciation week and Rahi made a Ventriloquism video to show his appreciation for his teachers. He did the same thing last year too. Before that I think it used to be cards that they make and give to teachers and flowers and so on. As I get older I am realizing…
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322/365 How I wear my Socks and tie my shoe laces
I recently bought a pair of slip ons. That is what I have been wearing more often. But I also have a pair of shoes that have laces. The few days back I picked that up and I put on the right shoe first and started tying the lace. I felt something was not right.…
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321/365 Vlogging Travel Videos and Family Videos
I put these two kinds of vlogging together because I don’t do solo travel and so all travel videos for me are in one way or another a Family video. I have done both these only in my mother tongue malayalam and never in english. while all other formats I have done in both languages.…
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