It is a terrible painIt comes from the corner of the roomIt has droopy eyesIt seems to know that I don’t care It does not have any feet.Just a wheel kind of thingattached to its backIt does not understand language It must have been there for a long timeIt could as well be a million years oldI don’t know if it is aloneDid it have … Continue reading It is there ! NPM2023 3/30
When I left my Startup/business efforts and started contracting I wanted to move to a Permanent role if possible. The company I was contracting with had some potential openings and I asked my then manager if I could be considered for the role and he told me in a very polite way that I was not very manageable. He said manageable and I also heard … Continue reading Don’t feel bad, But you are not very Manageable
Did I tell you that I am bored?I know it sounds weird.because being bored is not a thing anymoreIt is something of the pastAll Boredoms are now buried in the mobile apps But yes I feel bored at times.No, Not when the Mobile phone loses its chargeWith Mobile Phone next to me.. yesI feel bored I have tried to analyze this boredomAnd it took me … Continue reading A Boredom from the past NPM2023 2/30
A good part of my early career was as an employer and a startup guy (before I knew there was a concept called Startup). This goes back to 1993 when I graduated with an Electrical Engineering Degree from National Institute of Technology Calicut. Straight from college that is what I did. I started a company with a friend. Then after a few years I went on … Continue reading I have more to talk about my failures than my successes.
One interesting statement someone made to me a while back is that we are arguing and that we are in conflict and it is not good. They were right. They made that statement because we were truly arguing about something. And they also had the opinion that argument and conflicts are not good. Is it that simple? I have worked with so many people who … Continue reading Everywhere I worked I had people I did not fully agree with !!
They say words can dryLike it is some kind of riverMany words strung together can make a poem.Then isn’t a poem a river of words? Sometimes words dry inside the mouth.Sometimes they also die in there… What is the life of a word?does it die when it is the last word in a poem?If a word is used in a poem, does it mean it … Continue reading Words and Poems National Poetry Month 2023 NPM2023 1/30
I am sorry if my Layoff reflections are going too far. But this is a writing project I have taken up till I find my next engagement. So those who find these daily musings a bit annoying have an incentive to help me find a job. I am kidding. 😁Things will fall in place soon. But till then say Hi on LinkedIn. It is easy to … Continue reading Laid-Off? Now What? Get Busy !!!
I am also impacted by the layoff. And now #opentowork We all have been hearing of layoffs for a while. Every time I hear that from a company where a friend works, I call them and ask if they are ok. Thankfully none of my friends (that I know) were impacted. But now I am. 😊 This is the second layoff in my career. I don’t know … Continue reading I am also impacted by the layoff
I think there are three things we can do with ideas. If you think you don’t have one, it is probably because you don’t think the one you have is a good one. We all have ideas. We create them from thin air. Ideas do not come after they figure out the implementation. Ideas are there…. many many many…. The First thing we can do … Continue reading What do we do with ideas that come to our mind?
Alcarràs is the Spain’s offical entry to Oscar. Set in Alcarràs, Catalonia it tells the story of a farming family that has just figured they might lose their farmland that their family has been farming in for over three generations. The movie starts with the adults in the family frantically searching if there is any documentations that can tell the land is theirs. There is … Continue reading ALCARRÀS | Spain | Carla Simón | MUBI
Vinod Narayan 