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A Technical Manager with over 20 years in the High Tech industry with a passion for words. A practicing Agile Scrum Master and Coach with over the years working in the corporate world globally. Over the years he has delivered solutions, managed engagements, built teams and mentored professionals from the code level to the board level.
As a Poet, Blogger, Podcaster and independent film maker he has made sure to not left any stone unturned in the effort to try out every single passion of his. And he wants the same for others.
Founder or PenPositive a concept he conceived to approach life and work with the aim to prepare individuals to excel both in their Passion and their Profession.
As a Poet and blogger in English and Malayalam (മലയാളം - the language of Kerala, India). Hailing from Kozhikode (കോഴിക്കോട്) or Calicut. Also a Video Podcaster under the alias Ballatha Pahayan (ബല്ലാത്ത പഹയൻ) on YouTube.
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55/365 Two things that my son wrote
First let me give you some background. A few years back I did a writing project with my daughter. Every day I would give her a question and she would write me an answer. She was 14 back then. We… Read More ›
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54/365 Looking Good, Feeling Good and Being Good
Today as I went for my morning walk I was listening to a podcast in which they were mentioning about looking good and exercising and how it helps people in how they feel and this thought popped up in my… Read More ›
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53/365 A Ritual for initiating a change
Change is always an interesting topic for me, may be because we talk about it a lot in our agile world. But the change I wanted to talk today is about personal change. It is true that on a personal… Read More ›
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52/365 I am a girl from Africa
After I finished reading Daniel Kahneman’s Noise…. I felt I wanted a break. There was too much to process in that book. My choice was to spend some time with fiction. But then I thought how about switching to Memoir…. Read More ›
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51/365 Thoughts that make you feel stuck
Sometimes a thought comes to your mind and refuses to go away. As I struggle to make sense of it… as I try to understand where that thought came from and what its significance is it continues to grow… And… Read More ›
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50/365 Parenting across three worlds
When I was a kid I think I had way less of generation gap with my parents. It was like we all lived in pretty much the same world. We watched the same movies.. we were interested in the same… Read More ›
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49/365 What does family mean to us?
It runs in the family… family has your back… we are all a big family…. beyond our own ideas of a family… big or small.. over the years we have been come across many references of family. Always family is… Read More ›
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48/365 Wasting time like there is always enough
Now at 50 when I look back, one question that comes to my mind is have I wasted time. The answer is yes. There have been so many instances when I could have used my time better. May be it… Read More ›
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Ep-91 to Ep-109 What has been happening?
I did not stop podcasting.. just stopped adding stuff here daily. I have been podcasting daily all this while and it has been fun.. Over the past few weeks I had episodes on travel, on food, exercise, social media, cinema… Read More ›
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47/365 A change in my exercise Routine and why
So I have made a change in routine. I am not sure if I have mentioned before that my morning routine starts with a 2.5 miles brisk walk followed by my coffee and writing this post. I do another 2.5… Read More ›
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