Author: vinodnarayan
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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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100/365 Reflecting on 100 Days of Blogging
Today Marks the 100 days, I have been writing every single day and it feels good. Thought I will take some day to reflect on this and also see where it should take from here. As I had started the blog and after a 3-4 weeks I thought I should use this as a podcast…
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99/365 Being an Agile Practitioner
The beauty and satisfaction of working as an Agile Practitioner is that even while there is so much chaos around you, very often you stumble upon a new way of doing things that adds value to the team. I have been an Agile Practitioner working with companies large and small for over 10 years. For…
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98/365 An Active Learning Community
Active Learning is a process I define as a very engaging intentional focussed form of learning which then would manifest in such a way that every act of consumption will result in some form of learning. In my opinion this becomes ever more important in current times when mindless content consumption can drain us all…
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97/365 And the Dentist says ‘Smile Please’
Toothaches are one of the worst feelings. Well, all pain is bad and the worst is what we have experience right now. No I am not having a tooth ache but I went to see the dentist. And that too.. by accident…. how weird is that… A few days back my wife gets a text…
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96/365 Fear of Darkness
Growing up I was so afraid of darkness and being alone. It could have been the stories that I heard, movies I watched on TV or may be even what I read. We lived in a two story house and even going upstairs alone while people were in the house was kind of difficult. As…
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