Author: vinodnarayan
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311/365 How I see LinkedIn Today
I have been using LinkedIn for a long time now, There were times when I used it heavily and then there were gaps and so on. Over the last few years I have seen an interesting change in the kind of posts I see on it. And this could be due to the connections I…
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310/365 Enslaved by Algorithms
I have heard people say we are being enslaved by technology and I agree with being dependent. In one way that helps us do a lot more than what we were able to do before. The question is does doing more be termed as progress and does it make us happy? That is probably for…
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309/365 While stopping at the Traffic Light
Yesterday while driving to the office I stopped at a traffic light. I have stopped there many times. Yesterday something happened. It has happened to me at many traffic lights and every time it makes my day. I look at the person in the car next to me. For a moment we look at each…
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308/365 Time for some counseling sessions ?
I used to think that depression means one is always sad till I met with a counsellor a few years back and I figured it is not that way. I went for a few therapy sessions in 2016 or 2017. I think talking to the person helped. I can’t really say. I have not seen…
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307/365 Prescriptive or just Guardrails
There are two approaches when doing something or making others do it. One is to make the process very prescriptive and the other is to just offer some guardrails. And there are people who might like either of these. Some people like things to be very prescriptive and the idea is that this helps not so…
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306/365 Why do we hide things?
The other day I mentioned that Transparency need not hurt us but another thought came to mind today. Why do we hide things from others. I feel it is because of some fear and also our inability to understand what the result of not hiding will be. The state of hiding seems to be the most comfortable state. We…
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305/365 Starting InDriveView again
I think it was 7 years back that I first did an InDriveView.The idea was simple. I had just bought a GoPro and I would mount it on my car and have someone in the passenger seat and then we would just chat. The first victim was a friend of mine who was a vlogger.…
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304/365 Why I Like my job
Today is a Friday when I wrote this. I( was thinking about the Passion Profession post and video that I made two days back. There is more to it. The question was why I like my job. I think irrespective of what job it is, the criteria to like is pretty much the same. Two…
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303/365 The need for regular maintenance
I am not a person who does planned maintenance be it vehicle or on myself. ‘Myself’ is changing as I get older, but I think I can still be better. Vehicles, I have never maintained and it has cost me dearly, I am saying this today because I took my car to the dealer today for…
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302/365 Something extra on Passion and Profession
I have written about passion and profession before. Today I was thinking about it and I have some additional thoughts. I consider profession to be something that we are good at and passion to be something we are passionate about and love to do. These need not necessarily be the same for all people. We might have…
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