Author: vinodnarayan
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24/365 A good time to start a writing Project
I am not saying there is one such good time to start a writing project. One can start anytime. That said I also believe this could be a better time. And here is why. Across the world the last one and a half years have been quite different from what we all have experienced. During…
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23/365 When we think life can take a turn
Have you ever felt moments life when you think it is about to change. That feeling that you are totally unprepared. You know something can change but don’t know yet. And unless you know what it is, how can you prepare. We live at a time where a lot of future is ambiguous and uncertain…
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22/365 Our Existence Lies in other people’s Lives
The Pandemic has taken so many lives. Many people we know have left us. Last month I lost someone I knew very closely some twenty years back. There is no one day that passes when I don’t recognize my privilege. Over the past one and a half year we have not just lost people to…
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21/365 Passion and Discipline
I am not a very disciplined person and I know that. My mom is very disciplined and she did try teaching me a lot of discipline while I was a kid and I don’t think I really learned much. But last few years for some reason I started noticing some patterns. There are things I…
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20/365 When you rethink, reset and reach a Win Win.
It has been 20 days since I started this project and the format was that I write the blog and do a podcast on the same topic in my Malayalam Podcast. That was going all fine till two days back I felt that approach is in a way limiting what I write here. This is…
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EP88 When Improvements do not happen
My Podcast has started to feel a lot like a meditation when weekly I get to look back at my week and without being aware this will be public analyze it. Welcome to my retrospective this week. As the title says none of my improvements worked this week. But a few things did go well.…
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19/365 The Fame Trap on Social Media
The urge to be famous has created a sorts of trap in the social media era. Earlier in order to be famous one had to do something in life. May be accomplish something that had to do a lot with talent and hard work but now it is different and anyone can be famous. Sometimes…
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18/365 It is our responsibility to keep some people away from us
Unlike before we are not just connected to just a few people. We are connected to many and we also get to know new people every week. The question is should we get close and be connected with so many. I think it is our responsibility to keep some people as far away from us…
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17/365 A Writing Project with your kids
When my daughter was in high school I had done a year long writing project with her and it was mostly a Q&A. I post a question and she answers me and then we would discuss about it and so on. We did that for 365 days. This was around 7 years back I guess.…
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16/365 Changing the Genre I am reading
My reading over the past year and a half has been all Non fiction. May be I did read one or two novels in malayalam. I have been mostly reading on social sciences, economics, anthropology, Tech and Business, Data and so on. And to be honest while it was fun, I am slowly getting overwhelmed…
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