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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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My Reading Shelf in 2021
2021 was also a work from home year which means the commute time gets converted to what ever you want.. Some might have had used it in work.. or forced so… but I was lucky to use that for both… Read More ›
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India After Gandhi by Ramchandra Guha | Book Introduction
Having learned history throughout my school I always thought I would have a fair idea of what happened… And after school and taking up the Science and Engineering track, I had given up on learning anything of what happened in… Read More ›
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Nights and Days in Ujjaini
This Post is long due… because I had met MNN Chettan (Madassery Neelankandan Namboothiri) two months back to receive a copy of his translations of the Malayalam’s beloved poet Vishnu Narayanan Namboothiri… I have been close to MNN Chettan for… Read More ›
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Moving my daily Journal to Penpositive Outclass
After 139 days of continuously writing the Journal… I have decided to move that writing to the Penpositive Outclass Blog… There are different reasons for this. Since I have this exercise being associated by my Penpositive Outclass Podcast and plan… Read More ›
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139/365 How reckless and foolish I was
Yesterday I was watching an Indian movie and in that a person in a running train walks up to the door and tries to open it. When asked she tells that she wanted some fresh air… She cannot open the… Read More ›
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138/365 Should I give way to my madness?
Don’t we all have our share of madness? I think so… Some of the madness is so common that we think it is the norm… And some we hide though it is so OK… we hide it because we find… Read More ›
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137/365 Saying No to some of the things we want to do
We will never be able to do everything we want….and I get that… I hope you do too… but the bigger problem is saying No to some of the things we want to do.. Remember we spoke about value trade-offs……. Read More ›
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136/365 The “Love My Work’ Week
There was a 2019 book by Marcus Buckingham ‘Nine Lies About Work’ that he had coauthored with Ashley Goodall.. I highly recommend you all to read it…. In fact the Episode 9 of the Penpositive Outclass Podcast was about that…… Read More ›
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135/365 The Great Resignation
Two days back as part of the Penpositive Journal on the Penpositive YouTube channel… I did a video on The Great Resignation… some personal thoughts… I did not have any intention of repeating the same thing here.. but it was… Read More ›
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134/365 A bad day like any other bad day
A day can be bad for many reason.. today was one such… today means the day I am writing this blog… I am not sure which day you will read this… May be you will read this on a bad… Read More ›
Vinod Narayan 