Author: vinodnarayan
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110/365 Why do we work?
Work is the biggest part of our waking hour. For some folks the sleeping hour is so minuscule that work is all they have in their life. So Why do we work? Next few days I want to share with you some personal thoughts about work every day. I sometimes feel an alternative to work…
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109/365 My Failures from Lack of Motivation
One should learn from failures they say… true but my problem is choosing from all those failures in life. But even more my problem is I have kept on repeating a few things with out any attempt of learning anything. Why would that be? I often wonder… why would someone be doing that. You know…
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108/365 Finding your creator sweet spot
After 100+ days of writing and daily podcasting, I have started thinking about style. Is that something your develop? Should one be bother much about it. If you are trying to publish something yes. But if you look at it as a Journal should style matter. Can you manufacture style in journaling. Will that not…
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107/365 Honesty of Unknown People
It was last year… as the world was amidst the pandemic.. deaths mounting… no end in sight.. No news of vaccine.. at least for the common people like me. When hope was scarce, I got to witness an act of honesty. from a total stranger. During the Pandemic I had created a course on Agile…
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106/365 The Confessions of Quitter
The first time heard about the sunk cost fallacy, I felt like quitting every crap I was doing then. To be honest it felt like I was in this never ending journey and the things that I dread repeating itself. But that was a few years ago.. And Yes I quit what I was doing…
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105/365 Join from home & Work from home
The excitement of joining a new company might have changed a bit I feel. During the past one and a half years most people who joined across the various levels of the corporate machinery must have joined remotely and started delivering value in a remote setting. It is both interesting and challenging. When the Lock…
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104/365 When Facebook Was Down Yesterday
We all know that machines and software can stop working.. we humans also slow down and stop working.. But machines and software get fixed faster than we humans do. In the present time if machines and software go down humans are impacted more than ever. I made a post on instagram in the morning and…
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103/365 Homework Talks with your Kid
How should a homework conversation with your kid go. What are the things one should keep in mind as a parent? What questions should we ask kids? Is there even a need for such a conversation? Well, to be honest I have no clue if there is a ‘one size fits all’ answer to these…
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102/365 It is OK to not know it all
Kids don’t get their driving license till they are a certain age. They are not allowed to drink or smoke. There are restrictions that the system puts on them. Even when they start driving the insurance costs are so high because the system considers kids to be high risk drivers. And yet we sometimes want…
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101/365 How do you look at a Busy Day
Whenever you ask people how the day was, they say Busy… Busy Busy and I wonder… is it really busy. Do people feel happy or unhappy when they are busy. I sometimes feel it is not about busy but being meaningfully busy. If what we do is not meaningful then it does not matter whether…
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