Author: vinodnarayan
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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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15/365 My experience of not consuming news like before.
It has been more than a month that I stopped viewing the regular news that I used to watch. No YouTube, No following news channels on TV, No Social Media News outlets… nothing. That does not mean I don’t consume news. My news consumption has moved to Podcasts. very focused and as per my choice.…
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EP 87 We can look back and think and Retrospect.
Changing this Podcast to a Retrospective format. Answering three questions every week… I think this is a very important exercise and doing that in public would be fun. What Went Well? What did not go well? What will I improve? That is not all…. please listen and leave some good reviews. Share your thoughts on the…
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14/365 How our Life feels vs How our life looks like to others
We are going through a time when how our life looks to others is more important than how it really feels. Constantly opening ourselves to the eyes of others. Ready to be judged, liked, shared and disliked… it has become all about how it looks. But feeling is a real thing if any of us…
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13/365 We are responsible for our time
Time is that only resource we all have in equal quantities. It is also one resource that we have some control over. Control over what value it generates. And yet we end up wasting a lot of it. I personally have lost time and also made good use of it over my lifetime like any…
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12/365 So Can’t I be myself anymore?
I am of the opinion that we all should be ourselves and should not care for what other people think. That thought comes from the basic premise that there is so much that the society and others impose on our free thought. That said there is also a trap in here which we should address.…
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