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Photography is storytelling.

I believe in simplicity when taking photographs. I try to capture scenes of daily life, hidden jewels in quaint places, and the vividness of the world around me. I invite you to take a look at some of my work here and to join me on my photographic journey — Chitra Ragavan.

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know." -Diane Arbus

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I love this quote from the late Rev. Martin Luther I love this quote from the late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. It's so apt for this stunningly difficult year that we all have been through around the world. ⁠
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The loss my younger son @nwinelanddd has felt about the inability to enjoy his high school years with his friends, the loss my older son @awineland has felt from the closure of music internships and venues. ⁠
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The loss we have felt from not being able to travel at whim and leisure. ⁠
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Rev. King's quote is a reminder to us that these are all "finite disappointments." My sons are so lucky that they have the "infinite hope" that King alludes to, for their future, once this crisis is past, compared to many others less fortunate. For that I'm grateful! ⁠
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What's been your "finite disappointment," and "infinite hope" this year? I'd love to hear from you. ⁠
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I'd like to share with you the magical power of saying "no." ⁠
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It’s tempting to say YES to everything when you’re building something new. But although saying "yes" opens up so many opportunities for growth, remember that every decision you make has a tradeoff. ⁠
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It may be hard to do at first but remember that when you say yes to everything -- even projects or meetings or calls that aren't central to your mission and purpose -- you’re closing other potential opportunities that may be right up your alley.⁠
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It's something I've struggled with in my career. One of the best decisions I made after I had kids was to say "no" to most evening events. I managed to be at the dinner table most nights in their formative years except for essential business travel. ⁠
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Even now, as the CEO and founder of my technology advisory firm, I'm constantly assessing tradeoffs and am unafraid to say, "thanks, but no thanks. I am grateful for your interest, not now, but perhaps in the future."⁠
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Thanks to @fran_hauser for this reminder. ⁠
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Go check out Fran's book - The Myth of the Nice Girl: Achieving a Career You Love Without Becoming a Person You Hate, for more gems like this!⁠
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Tell me in the comments what you find hard to say "no" to and leave me an emoji if you’re going to utilize the power of saying NO in 2021! 🙅‍♀️⁠
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Mara Hvistendahl began looking into the FBI’s ar Mara Hvistendahl began looking into the FBI’s arrest of a lone Chinese man behaving suspiciously in an Iowa cornfield and she was blown away by what she uncovered.⁠
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Hvistendahl’s two-year reporting journey led her into the heart of a massive FBI industrial espionage investigation into the theft of genetically modified corn seeds by Chinese agribusinesses, triggered by the arrest of that one individual, Robert Mo.⁠
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What began as idle curiosity ended in a gripping book,  The Scientist and The Spy, in which Hvistendahl documents the extraordinary lengths to which the U.S. government went to make its case against Mo and the implications for other U.S. based Chinese scientists and foreign scientists in general. ⁠
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And it is a microcosm of some of the issues confronting U.S. – China trade relations.⁠
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Hvistendahl’s tour de force also offers a disturbing picture of the consolidation of U.S. agriculture in the hands of a few corporate giants, leaving average farmers fighting for survival. ⁠
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And she examines in detail the ethnic discrimination underlying many of these types of criminal investigations and prosecutions.⁠
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The story, which Hvistendahl now believes she was meant to write, also had a deeply personal twist, bringing her full circle back to her own midwestern roots.⁠
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I hope you enjoy this saga of one reporter‘s long journey home.⁠
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Listen to the full episode by clicking the link in my bio!⁠
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I asked my friend Asra Normani about her “Viral I asked my friend Asra Normani about her “Viral Insights,” 🦠 moments of clarity that she’s had in the wake of the  COVID-19 crisis.⁠
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Here is what @asranomani had to say:⁠
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“It just made me realize that this is a gift, every breath that we can take, literally, and I just every morning try to wake up with a reflection on my intentions for the day and really try to do good.⁠
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 Definitely go to bed at night, always thinking I could have done better, but wake up again, make my bed so that I can feel like I’ve accomplished one solid thing for the day when I returned back to the bed. ⁠
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But that’s really my epiphany is that we have to really just keep doing that constant daily reflection so that we stay true to our inner values and our innermost important motions, really, which is friendship and family."⁠
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Have you managed to find time to embrace your altered reality from COVID-19? If so, leave me a comment! ⬇️ ⁠
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While the world is concerned with scarcity, let's While the world is concerned with scarcity, let's take a minute to look at the abundance in our lives.⁠
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We have an abundance of laughter, an abundance of kindness that we can lavish on others, an abundance of smiles, an abundance of stories and experiences, an abundance of gratitude. Let those be things you share right now.⁠
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Tell me an abundance of something in your life you didn’t give much thought to until now?⁠
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For me, I have an abundance of love to give to my amazing children @awineland and @nwinelanddd and that will never change. ❤️⁠
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📣Listen up startups, dropping some gems here fr 📣Listen up startups, dropping some gems here from @susanmcp1⁠ author of The Lost Art of Connecting. ⁠
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This is such great advice, especially in this day and age. In this global "gig" economy with its growing number of freelancers who can be found on various platforms, it's very easy to find strong talent and delegate the nitty-gritty so that you can focus on the big picture: driving revenues and making and maintaining connections and relationships, the life-blood of all companies. ⁠
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Hit the follow button if you want more advice for leaders, startups and CEOs⁠
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🎙️NEW EPISODE of Tectophia! And we are talkin 🎙️NEW EPISODE of Tectophia! And we are talking about a timely topic, technology's fueling of the rise in domestic extremism and the Capitol Hill riots on January 6th. ⁠
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We're asking the question, how does this homegrown radicalization differ from foreign extremism such as ISIS and how is technology enabling it? ⁠
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And I have the perfect guest who offers some unique insights, my friend Anne Speckhard. She's director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism and has interviewed hundreds of terrorists all over the world. Speckhard is working with social media platforms to create counter-narratives videos to target both ISIS and domestic terrorist threats. ⁠
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You don't want to miss this one, link in bio to listen to the full episode!⁠
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I asked Julie Schafer about her “Viral Insights, I asked Julie Schafer about her “Viral Insights,” 🦠moments of clarity she’s had in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis.⁠
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Currently the Chief Technology Officer at FluLab, Schafer is consulting with the federal government on strategies and vaccines to stop Covid-19 in its tracks.⁠
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Here is what Julie had to say:⁠
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"I think that so many of the things that I think would be most helpful for addressing COVID-19 are the things that I’m most passionate about.⁠
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 In terms of understanding, having wearables that will tell us that we’re sick before we’re sick, presymptomatic identification of infection. ⁠
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Those things that I’ve always been so passionate about, this has only reinforced that I was passionate about the right things and that it actually, it fueled my fire to get there on those technologies."⁠
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Have you had any moments of clarity during the pandemic? Drop them in the comments below.⁠
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Here's my latest tech story in @swaaymedia about t Here's my latest tech story in @swaaymedia about the challenges confronting the U.S. government, #technology #startups such as Voatz, #election officials, and #informationsecurity experts, in modernizing #voting and making it more secure and accessible to all Americans. ⁠⁠
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Click the link in my bio if you want to read the full story!⁠⁠
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Excited to launch my new tech podcast, Techtopia! Excited to launch my new tech podcast, Techtopia! 
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The first episode is about the role of technology in enabling the conspiracy theories that contributed to the January 6 riots on Capitol  Hill. 
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⁠My guest is the amazing Joseph Coohill, @professorbuzzkill professor of modern world history and host of the popular Professor Buzzkill History Podcast. He offers great perspectives on how this event compares to others in history and its implications for American democracy.⁠
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Listen to the full episode by clicking the link in my bio. ⁠Would love your comments. 
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I asked Justin Richmond about his “Viral Insight I asked Justin Richmond about his “Viral Insights,” 🦠moments of clarity he’s had in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis.⁠
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Justin Richmond is the Founder, and Executive Director of impl. project.⁠
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🗣️Here is what Justin had to say: ⁠
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"I’m not going to believe anybody that tells me they didn’t completely reassess themselves and their careers and their lives during this time.⁠
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 I, for one, am spending way too much time on the road and not enough time with my children. And that is a sober reality that I am slowly, slowly trying to come to grips with. ⁠
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And I think telecommuting is absolutely going to become a much more fundamental part of impl. projects future trajectory. ⁠
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I just don’t see the need in taking people away from their families to sit in an office all day. I think there’s just a lot better ways to do it. Now, one opportunity that impl. project has, that most other organizations don’t, is that our scrappiness means that we’re terribly resilient. ⁠
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We have had to endure tough shocks already. 2019 was a tough year in terms of foreign policy decisions being up and down and right wrong."⁠
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What are some moments of clarity that you’ve had during the pandemic? Let me know in the comments below! ⬇️⁠
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I practice spaciousness in my life through a medit I practice spaciousness in my life through a meditative form of photography, trying to remove any distraction of thought, word or action and staying focused in the now so I can recognize the true image as it emerges from the noise. ⁠
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Renowned photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson alluded to this spaciousness in his book, "The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers."⁠
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"To take photographs means to recognize—simultaneously and within a fraction of a second—both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis.”⁠
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How do you practice spaciousness in your everyday life? ⁠
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How do you feel about owning your story? 🤔⁠
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 In my advisory work with technology founders, one of the first things I do is to guide them systematically through their personal and professional narrative, from start to finish. ⁠
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That detailed exercise helps me frame their stories with deeper meaning and often gives my clients new perspective into why they built that product in the first place, that they are now ready to share with the world. ⁠
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I recently did that same exercise for myself and hope to share my story in an upcoming piece that I'm writing. ⁠
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What's your story? I hope you finding your narrative in 2021!⁠
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Daniel Pearl went to Karachi, Pakistan, and never Daniel Pearl went to Karachi, Pakistan, and never returned. 

It was 19 years ago that Pakistani militants kidnapped and held The Wall Street Journal correspondent hostage before murdering him and releasing his beheading video to a shocked world. 

On January 23rd, 2002, @asranomani waited at her home in Karachi for her dear friend, Pearl to return from a reporting assignment. 

Pearl and his wife, Mariane, who was pregnant with their first child were staying with Nomani while he was investigating the Al-Qaeda networks that had conspired to pull off the 9/11 terrorist attacks on U.S. soil just a few months earlier. 

But Nomani would never see Pearl again. His murder galvanized her to embark on a long and difficult quest to identify Pearl’s killers and help bring them to justice.

In this riveting episode, Nomani describes how Pearl’s murder helped shape her as a journalist, author and a feminist Muslim. 

Listen to the full episode by clicking on the link in my bio. 🎙

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I asked my dear friend Linda Souza about any “Vi I asked my dear friend Linda Souza about any “Viral Insights,” that she’s had in the wake of COVID-19, those moments of clarity brought upon by a crisis.⁠
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Here is what @quirkygirlla had to say about a near-miss car accident she escaped early in her life and how that changed her capacity to deal with difficult situations like the pandemic. ⁠
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“Honestly, it gives me a sense of calm, I guess, and a sense of confidence that when everything goes wrong and I need to act quickly, that I will have the presence of mind, the clear-mindedness to be decisive, to act fast and to make the right choices. ⁠
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So I think that the unknown is scary. And this gives me a little bit of peace of mind that I have in the past reacted in the right way to get myself out of the situation, and I can do that again.”⁠
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What are some moments of clarity that you’ve had in the wake of COVID-19 or even the recent few crazy months that we’ve had in America? ⁠
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Especially in a time like this, during a pandemic, gratitude is everything and I want to tell you a story about what I'm most grateful for this year. ⁠
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But despite the immense feeling of loss and loneliness, I feel so grateful for their incredible love for my brother and me and their unstinting support of us through thick and thin. I for one, would not be where I am today without their backing. I definitely wish I had told them that more when they were alive. ⁠
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They say that gratitude is the most powerful emotion in the world. So if you are grateful to someone, let them know today and tag them here. Because life is short. 
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My frosted kitchen window pane last month is apt f My frosted kitchen window pane last month is apt for the John Geddes quote, “December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory...” And with snow expected this weekend, any memory of summer’s sizzle will soon be obliterated. #photography #photooftheday #photographylovers
Raised by a single mom on $5,000 a year in food st Raised by a single mom on $5,000 a year in food stamps, Kevin Burt spent most of his life in chronic “survival mode” in the school of hard knocks.⁠
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That meant a chronically anxious and overworked state of mind and body: “You’re so worried about the basics of day to day that there’s no way to think about tomorrow, there’s no way to think about not a day from now, not a week from now, not a year from now,” says Burt. ⁠
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So caught up was Burt in a punishing work cycle of 300 or more shows a year that when his friends urged him to sign up for the prestigious International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee in 2018, he said he was too busy.⁠
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But his friends prevailed. Burt decided to jump into the Challenge, albeit grudgingly.⁠
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It would prove to be the best decision of his life.⁠
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Burt swept the contest in three categories, best harmonica, guitar, and solo/duo — the first performer to accomplish that little hat trick in the competition’s thirty-five-year history.⁠
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His massive success, borne of a lifetime of hard work and resilience, has skyrocketed Burt into a surreal new matrix, both on the international blues soundstage and in his personal headspace.⁠
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He says it’s a development that he’s “wholly unprepared for.” But he’s getting there quickly, one step at a time.⁠
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Like for all musicians, Burt’s life has changed dramatically in the wake of COVID-19 with music venues shutting down globally. But there’s one thing that will remain constant: His commitment to his role as a blues heritage educator and a proud narrator of Iowa’s forgotten important role in the evolution of the American blues scene.⁠
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I'm a huge fan of @Spanx Founder and CEO @SaraBlak I'm a huge fan of @Spanx Founder and CEO @SaraBlakely. She's such an incredible success story. And what's so awesome about Blakely is that she's so generous about teaching others what she learned in her long, tough journey to making Spanx the global powerhouse that it is today. ⁠
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Cannot wait to get back to Sunset Beach this summe Cannot wait to get back to Sunset Beach this summer. I have cherished my early morning beach walks there with my boys @awineland and @nwinelanddd ever since they were little. When the first rays of the sun bathe you in their warmth, it feels as if anything is possible. That’s the ethos of startups too that I love, that anything is possible. #photography #photooftheday #photographylovers #startup #startuplife
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Chitra is a tech executive, strategic communications advisor, and award-winning former journalist at NPR and U.S. News. She helps CEOs solve business-critical issues to skyrocket bottom line and brand value. Chitra brings to the table her unique dual-career experience as a tech executive and seasoned journalist –– with expertise in national security, politics, healthcare, and other major public policy issues –– excellent connections to the highest levels of business and government, and a proven track record of guiding and helping startups succeed. Chitra hosts the leadership podcast, When It Mattered, available on all the major podcast platforms.

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