RVND by Arvind

Personal notes
loosely organised

Technology / photographs / cricket / whatever survives the week

Work, world, and the bits that refuse categorisation.

I lead technology teams. I also think too much about cameras, cricket and trains. This is where those preoccupations are allowed to share a table.

Street cricket on a tree-lined road
Sunday fielding positions, negotiated around a parked scooter.
A traveller at an open train window
The delay had stopped being news.

Note to selfA personal notebook with no quarterly objectives.

A laptop on a desk beside a notebook
Preparation should improve the question, not eliminate it.

The most senior person in the room should ask the dumbest question.

Expertise often makes questions harder to ask precisely when a team needs them most. A case for making uncertainty visible before it becomes expensive.

Read the note

Looking is part of the work.

Photographs from journeys, walks and the brief intervals when I remembered to stop checking email.

A calm waterway framed by palms
Everything reflected twice.
Boats in rain
Rain cancelled nothing. It renegotiated the venue.
A houseboat on quiet water
Home, hotel, vehicle. Less useful categories near water.
Open the latest photo dispatch

Notes in several states of certainty.

  1. W.13 Technology Software should know when the job is finished
  2. A.07 Travel / photographs What the itinerary left out
  3. S.04 Cricket Five days, no winner, excellent use of time
  4. L.09 Leadership The one-on-one is not a status meeting

The camera is a very expensive way to practise noticing.

Field notes, contact sheets, wrong lenses, and occasional evidence that carrying less helps.

A camera resting on a wooden surface
The smaller camera. Still somehow not small.