Author: vinodnarayan
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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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EP 212 (149/365) When suddenly things change
So change is always an interesting aspect and being an Agile professional… day in and day out we talk of change…. I think that is one area we keep talking… one thing that has not changed in last few years for me…. this talking about change…. managing change to leading change and so on… but…
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EP 211 (148/365) A total stranger makes your day
I know it is a cliche… you might have heard it many times over and over that a kind gesture from a total stranger can make your day… But what the heck… if it happens to you, you need to talk about it.. loud.. let people know… the world needs such news… more than ever.…
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EP 210 (147/365) Another of those days
It has been 147 days since I started this project and today is one such day when my mind is blank…. It is not that there is nothing to write.. it is that nothing seems important enough to write… The Journal looks back at me… “should I stay or should I go” it asks me……
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EP 209 (146/365) Dune the Movie
Dune… I have not read any of the books.. I have never been a great SciFi reader…. So the fact that Dune was releasing did not really excite me… I have to let you know that I have not watched any of Star Wars completely…. I know that some you might not like me for…
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EP 208 (145/365) Belfast the Movie
Last weekend I saw two movies and I am going to dedicate this and the next episode to those movies. I am not sure if I can call these reviews but more of my experience watching and thoughts that went through my mind watching them. I watched both the movies in the theaters. Today let’s…
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EP 207 (144/365) Death in the Digital age
Is dying the same…. before and in this digital age…. When we die we don’t exist in the physical world… but digitally our presence is felt… one does not need to pull the album and flip through it to see our pictures… They don’t need to do anything to watch our videos… We are there…
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EP 206 (143/365) Four Thousand Weeks
If we live up to 80 years we would have lived around four thousand weeks. That is true… but I did not think about it till I read Oliver Burkeman’s book ‘Four Thousand Weeks’…. Time Management for mortals…. The book reminds us about both time and our mortality. The first thing I did as soon…
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