Category: Opinions
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75/365 When you change some people will distance from you
“The world is changing” He shouted… “I know it dammit” I shouted back at him.. “So what are you going to do about it” he wanted an answer as if he was standing at that tip of change. I kept quiet and looked around me… I had to think.. Change is all over us and…
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74/365 Happy Teacher’s Day – From Teachers to Facilitators of Learning
Is that a long journey…? in 2020 just before the pandemic broke I was at a teacher’s training institute in my home town in Kozhikode, talking to new teachers who were leaving the college that year…. and this was one of the question I had in mind. The Journey to being a teacher is what…
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72/365 The slow pace of life
I read carl Honore’s ‘In Praise of slowness’ sometime in 2011. I read that after I heard one of his TED talks. I can’t say I have consciously practiced that. But years later when I look back, there are elements of me that has had an interesting pace. Last one and a half year a…
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71/365 30 Day Challenges
I am a big fan of 30 day challenges. Doing something for 30 days. This can be anything from exercising or walking to cooking or blogging. Anything you can imagine and you can put that into a 30 day challenge format. Yesterday I was reflecting on all those 30 DC that I have done. I…
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70/365 The Beauty for Iterations
If there is one thing that I have learned being an agile practitioner for the past 10+ years is that Iterations are so powerful. Not the duration in which you do the iteration. But just the process of iteration. And yes retrospect at the end of it. For me I guess over time it has…
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69/365 The Struggle to be Honest
Is being honest easy for people. We all know that honesty is the best thing to do and yet there is so much dishonesty in this world. Many cases people even rationalize the action and don’t consider them as dishonest. So is being honest a struggle? I can tell from my personal experience. I have…
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65/365 My Battles with Smoking
They say just go cold turkey… In terms of smoking… just quit… don’t do a reducing the smoke…. just quit… if not possible take help… I have had my long struggles with the habit. I realized you can trick your brain and this is something a friend of mine told me. He said don’t think…
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63/365 Who are our Friends?
I am not even trying to ask myself who are my true friends. In a world where everything is a friend request… who are our friends? Are they the people you interact with daily or is it those who just are there when you need them. For that to sink in I might have to…
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62/365 Keeping Passion Separate From Work
Before I start I want to tell you all that, this is what I think now and I might change my thought down the line when I understand life better. Like many others I also grew up hearing that ‘follow your passion’. If you start getting paid for what you like to do then you…
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61/365 Becoming a Learning Machine
I am sure you would have heard this term ‘Learning machine’ to talk about oneself or others. The first time I heard something similar to this was probably in the movie First Blood where they refer to Rambo as a ‘Killing Machine’. We have come a long way from aspiring to be a ‘Killing Machine’…
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