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Author: vinodnarayan

  • With my daughter đŸ„°

    With my daughter đŸ„°

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    vinodnarayan
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    The other day as I was buying my lunch at our cafeteria, I get a message on our family group from my daughter Rhea. She is in her office today. Her office is 3 minutes from mine. I said “come over and let’s have lunch”. Then she said she wanted to see where I work.…

  • Who is a customer ? And when do we stop being one?

    Who is a customer ? And when do we stop being one?

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    vinodnarayan
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    Who is a customer when you are in a store? Some would say, a customer is anyone who is a potential buyer of a product in a store. We can even say that for a ‘For Profit’ business it would be anyone who can initiate, facilitate or influence a business transaction…. fair. Now let us…

  • How we spend our time

    How we spend our time

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    Today with so many options, there is so much that craves our time and attention and not all of them are useful to us. Some of them we know are useless and yet we do them. Some of them we only know the uselessness in hindsight. This also means we sometimes know how useful things…

  • Return to Office

    Return to Office

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    Working from home was never an option before. Then came internet and the option was available for some. During my sales days I used to work for years from a home office. I never liked it. During pandemic working from home became a norm. Many companies boasted that they will never do a working from…

  • The cost of inaction

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    I am not sure why but sometimes I know exactly what all need to be done, yet I don’t do it. I tried to check if it is procrastination. But no, it is something else. It is a hold up that is stopping me from acting. Today driving back from office, that is what my…

  • When I get criticized

    When I get criticized

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    Why do we have an issue when someone criticizes us ? Maybe it does not bother you, but it sure bothers me. Even when I ask for a feedback and I initiated it, the moment it starts sounding like a criticism, it starts hurting. An uncomfortable feeling that grows inside. A point comes when everything…

  • Success and Waste

    Success and Waste

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    Two friends meet after years and spend a few days talking about career and life. One friend has had a great career in science with double doctorate and spends his time in United states and the other chose a simpler life as a meteorologist in a remote place. A life of evident obscurity and financial…

  • Happiness of being used

    Happiness of being used

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    vinodnarayan
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    In Ichiro Kishimi‘s ’The courage to be disliked‘ there is an interesting sentence that comes to me over and over. It goes something like this, or that is how I understood. “Happiness and self worth comes from being beneficial to the community, by being of use to someone else.” This is a profound and deep…

  • Flashing my Rank

    Flashing my Rank

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    “When you see someone often flashing their rank or position, or someone whose name is often bandied about in public, don’t be envious; such things are bought at the expense of life. . . .  Some die on the first rungs of the ladder of success, others before they can reach the top, and the few that make…

  • Do I need AI to write for me ?

    Do I need AI to write for me ?

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    vinodnarayan
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    Every time I try to write something on LinkedIn, it tells me “Rewrite with AI” but one needs a premium account to do that. I don’t have one now. I used to have it before. Then I wonder why would I want AI to rewrite for me if my enjoyment is in writing. I am…