Author: vinodnarayan
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EP 222 (159/365) House of Gucci
Wealth. made.. inherited… acquired.. lost… House of Gucci takes you through the twists and turns in the family business empire.. based on a book by Sara Gay Forden a true story about the Gucci family…. What money does to people and what lack of it does… I did not have a lot of expectations going…
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EP 221 (158/365) King Richard has a plan
Last week I saw the new Will Smith movie… King Richard which tells you the story of Venus and Serena Williams… their family.. Will Smith plays the dad… Planning, preparation and relationships…. that is how I will sum it… A must watch for those who love movies I have always been skeptical about missing life…
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EP 220 (157/365) What matters most at Work
If not people.. which I mentioned in my last post.. What matters to you most at work….? if we had to choose something else… other than people what would that be… I have been thinking about it and lot of things came to my mine… title… power.. money…. purpose….. and so on… I think money…
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EP 219 (156/365) What makes Work enjoyable?
Work can be enjoyable but work can also be a drudgery… and the fact is that not everyone in this world is privileged to enjoy their work… Some jobs are not humanely enjoyable… So if we need to talk about what makes work enjoyable then we can only do it by acknowledging our privilege to…
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EP 218 (155/365) What is Commitment in a job
How committed are we in our job? How committed should we be? How can we ensure we are committed.. What do you think employers or our team mates or manager thinks of commitment… Are our managers more committed than us because they have a fancier title or higher salaries and have more power in the…
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EP 217 (154/365) Why do you want this job?
You are going for an interview and they ask you why do you want this job? What will your answer be… I am sure we all will have our own answers…. And based on our situation our real answer can be different… I say real answer because not everyone will give the real answer.. they…
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EP 216 (153/365) Starting to Understand History
I have often wondered if the real intention of learning history was met in my case… Well what is the real intention..? I have learned history as a subject throughout my school…. I did not hate it in anyway.. but the way it was taught and what was expected of us was to write exams…
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EP 215 (152/365) System Error
What do you get when a Philosopher, a Technologist and a Public Policy expert come together? You get ‘System Error’… Just wrapped up this interesting book about ‘where big tech went wrong and how we can reboot’ It is an interesting read written by Stanford Professors Rob Reich, a philosopher, Mehran Sahami, a Technologist and…
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EP 214 (151/365) Crappy starts and consistency
We all can fall into this trap of not able to start on something. Sometimes it is because we are planning for everything to be perfect before we can start. I believe in starting crappy and then becoming consistent. Consistency is a path to improvement… I am not saying consistently be crappy… What I mean…
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EP 213 (150/365) I should not have done this
When pandemic hit we were all in a position of uncertainty and the immediate goal was to ensure how we can make things better for ourselves… what many of us… or at least I did not think was of many other people who were less privileged than me…. I have spoken and written about how…
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