Vinay Payyapilly
Success without a map - Lessons from my journey
Success isn’t always planned. Embrace uncertainty, work hard, keep learning, and be ready when luck strikes. Life’s path isn’t always linear
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jul 102 min read
Flipping Coins and Missing Trains: Understanding Life’s Randomness
This article emphasizes balancing control and accepting life's randomness.
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 243 min read
To WfH or Not to WfH: Challenges and Solutions for Modern Workplaces
Discover the challenges and solutions for making remote work and work-from-home a success in our rapidly evolving work landscape.
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 102 min read
Why helping others grow is the secret to your success
Discover how letting go and empowering others can unlock new opportunities for personal and professional growth."
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Vinay Payyapilly
Apr 223 min read
The Writer's Ally: How Generative AI is Transforming Creative Expression
Writing, like any other skill, improves the more you do it. In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell explores the importance of doing...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Apr 82 min read
Why Haven't We Solved This Yet? Exploring the Entrepreneur's Quest
If you are anything like me, you must encounter numerous situations where you ask yourself, “Why hasn’t anybody solved this problem?”
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Vinay Payyapilly
Feb 192 min read
Writing based KPIs for technical writers
I have written earlier about Measuring Effectiveness Through GAI-Driven Support Outcomes as a way to measure the performance of technical...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Feb 122 min read
Revolutionizing Technical Writing: Measuring Effectiveness Through GAI-Driven Support Outcomes
Whenever I ask the question, how do you measure the performance of your writers, to any technical writing leader, the answers I receive...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Feb 4, 20234 min read
Non-XML to XML: A Help site’s coming-of-age story
It was somewhere in 2019 that we decided that it was time to grow up and use a real documentation tool. Up till that point, we were using...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Sep 30, 20222 min read
Using the cycle to commute
I cycled to work every day last week. Before this, I would cycle to work on and off, but never as a regular thing. There are too many...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 12, 20223 min read
Vikram (Tamil, 2022)
As is the norm in the Karan Johan school of filmmaking, Vikram’s release was preceded my huge promotions. It started with the star cast –...
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Vinay Payyapilly
May 27, 20213 min read
The dangers of hero worship
Heroes, mentors, gurus....we seem to have an inherent need to deify someone and put them on a pedestal. As a young boy, I was a big fan...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Mar 29, 20163 min read
Cycling – Exercise, Hobby, Destressor, My Time
I am a roadie. There, I’ve said it and it’s out there. Give me a road and any type of vehicle, that’s all I need to feel free and happy....
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jan 4, 20161 min read
Goa – Hyderabad | Via Yadgir
There are two ways to get from Goa to Hyderabad – via Mahbubnagar or via Yadgir. This year we did the latter. Distance: 709 km Time: 16.5...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 11, 20153 min read
Highway Encounter
The trip was about 325 km long and took about 7 hours to complete. This meant that I would reach Bangalore by about 8 p.m., which would...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 9, 20143 min read
A Schoolyard Spat
I must admit that I am partial towards Tharoor, not because of any personal affiliation or because he has been brilliant as a minister –...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Sep 7, 20131 min read
The Things that Disappeared
The telephone: In the 80s, getting a telephone in India was a major project. You applied for one and waited till hell froze over. I...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Jan 5, 20132 min read
Road trip: Hyderabad – Aluva [Dec 2012]
Nothing catches my imagination or fires me up as much as taking a road trip. Add to that the excitement of doing my first long trip in my...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Nov 28, 20122 min read
How Honda got it terribly wrong
Two days later a user car dealer checked my car and his first words on returning from the test drive were, “What a beautiful car! Why are...
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Vinay Payyapilly
Oct 29, 20123 min read
Hyderabad – Bangalore – Ooty
18-June-2015 | Updated information This post was written almost three years ago, so I thought it is high time I update it with fresh...
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