Author: vinodnarayan
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316/365 Social Commentary Vlogging
I like doing social commentary and I have found even people like it… or I should say the views are higher for such content. But over time I became a bit disillusioned thinking if it was really adding any value or just bordering on making fun and becoming just a stand up comic content. Not that…
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315/365 What should I do with Vlogging?
Once I started doing videos things started changing, though I used it initially do videos of poems, it moved on to social commentary and that is where it became viral and I got the small audience that I have now. I have tried several kinds of videos to see what I would Like. Conversations, cooking…
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314/365 What do I want to blog about?
I started blogging because I thought I was bad with words. Being a very poor reader as a kid and being among people who read, I felt writing is something beyond what I could do. I also only learned my mother tongue ‘Malayalam’ for just 4 years. And I always felt I sucked at it.…
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313/365 Tracing back at my Social Media usage
I started using social media with Orkut, like many people. It was so much fun as I started connecting with my friends from college and family. It was like a get together that you could join anytime you want. I had that same feeling years later when Clubhouse came up. There was something called Paltalk…
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312/365 Living different Lives 
Sometimes I feel I live many different lives across different media. Like I am a different person everywhere. My temper and tone and the basic fabric seems to be changing. We can call it persona but each persona kind of grows in its own way based on how I live that life. In real life…
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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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