Author: vinodnarayan
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56/365 Some thoughts on employee mental health
Recently I see many articles on employee mental health and even companies being concerned about it. Also companies have been started to just address this space. What I am not sure is if it has always been a concern or the pandemic just made people discuss this more. We used to discuss stress at work…
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55/365 Two things that my son wrote
First let me give you some background. A few years back I did a writing project with my daughter. Every day I would give her a question and she would write me an answer. She was 14 back then. We continued that for a year… yes 365 days. This was a big learning experience for…
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54/365 Looking Good, Feeling Good and Being Good
Today as I went for my morning walk I was listening to a podcast in which they were mentioning about looking good and exercising and how it helps people in how they feel and this thought popped up in my mind. More than feeling good and being good the social media seems to be more…
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53/365 A Ritual for initiating a change
Change is always an interesting topic for me, may be because we talk about it a lot in our agile world. But the change I wanted to talk today is about personal change. It is true that on a personal level change happens always. Some knowingly and some unknowingly. And at other times we have…
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52/365 I am a girl from Africa
After I finished reading Daniel Kahneman’s Noise…. I felt I wanted a break. There was too much to process in that book. My choice was to spend some time with fiction. But then I thought how about switching to Memoir. That is how I got hold of Elizabeth Nyamayaro’s amazing memoir ‘I am a girl…
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51/365 Thoughts that make you feel stuck
Sometimes a thought comes to your mind and refuses to go away. As I struggle to make sense of it… as I try to understand where that thought came from and what its significance is it continues to grow… And it gets uncomfortable. I am not sure if you have had that similar feeling. Now…
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50/365 Parenting across three worlds
When I was a kid I think I had way less of generation gap with my parents. It was like we all lived in pretty much the same world. We watched the same movies.. we were interested in the same news about the world. We even had similar tastes and food and so on. Not…
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49/365 What does family mean to us?
It runs in the family… family has your back… we are all a big family…. beyond our own ideas of a family… big or small.. over the years we have been come across many references of family. Always family is something that is close to you or brings you closer to someone else in this…
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48/365 Wasting time like there is always enough
Now at 50 when I look back, one question that comes to my mind is have I wasted time. The answer is yes. There have been so many instances when I could have used my time better. May be it was because I did not know back then what I know now. So even if…
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Ep-91 to Ep-109 What has been happening?
I did not stop podcasting.. just stopped adding stuff here daily. I have been podcasting daily all this while and it has been fun.. Over the past few weeks I had episodes on travel, on food, exercise, social media, cinema and so many more. Short under 10 minutes…. most of them are around 6-7 minutes.…
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