Penpositive Podcast

It is October and in just over two months we will be getting into a new year and a week before that we will all be flooded by New Year Resolutions and how the year was and how the coming year is going to be and so on. But the question is why should we wait for the New Year to come? I mean for making resolutions to be precise... Want to be an Active Learner? Now you can Request to join www.penposit...

I really loved my daily commute which started at the end of December 2010 and continued till August of 2012. I used to commute for 2 hours daily back and forth to office. And I loved it. No I am honest… I loved it.. Why…? Want to be an Active Learner? Now you can Request to join www.penpositive.com . Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penpositive/ YouTube: https://www.yo...

Pandemic was a time when many people who had not done remote work started doing it. I was someone who had experienced remote work for several years in my career. But that did not matter because it was different now. Want to be an Active Learner? Now you can Request to join www.penpositive.com . Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penpositive/ YouTube: https://www.youtube....

When I look back at life that has passed, I often wonder if there is any event or moment that I want to relive. I have never got an answer. There are places I surely don’t want to go back again.. but relive? I don’t know…. to be honest… Want to be an Active Learner? Now you can Request to join www.penpositive.com . Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penpositive/ YouTube:...

When I was a student I never knew about the word ‘ unlearning ‘. Even the other day when I posted about unlearning, someone asked if that was a real word. We live in a time when unlearning has become so important than even learning. And why is that? Want to be an Active Learner? Now you can Request to join www.penpositive.com . Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penposit...

I started working for the first time in a large corporation 5 months shy of my 40th birthday. Spending 17 years in the Tech field working in small companies and unsuccessfully running my own ventures. Finally there comes a first day at work kind of experience after 17 years of working. Want to be an Active Learner? Now you can Request to join www.penpositive.com . Connect on Social Media: Instagra...

In 2010 I was at a crossroad with a mounting debt, no clear idea of a possible career even after spending 17 years in an Industry that has been booming all the while. In short I did not know what skill of mine can be sold or projected as being employable. Want to be an Active Learner? Now you can Request to join www.penpositive.com . Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pe...

There are decisions we take in our life that can cost us either immediately or in the long run. I have experimented a lot with my career and also made decisions and if I look back it has had its impact. I think it would be nice to reflect back. There is a price…. Want to be an Active Learner? Now you can Request to join www.penpositive.com . Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagra...

Find a way to get paid for your passion and you will not work for another day. That is what I have heard over and over again. You must have too… And magically your Passion and work becomes one and the same. How beautiful is that. Definitely worth trying. I have tried and failed.. not once but twice. Want to be an Active Learner? Now you can Request to join www.penpositive.com . Connect on Social M...

Work is the biggest part of our waking hour. For some folks the sleeping hour is so minuscule that work is all they have in their life. So Why do we work? Next few days I want to share with you some personal thoughts about work every day. Want to be an Active Learner? Now you can Request to join www.penpositive.com . Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penpositive/ YouTub...

One should learn from failures they say... true but my problem is choosing from all those failures in life. But even more my problem is I have kept on repeating a few things with out any attempt of learning anything. Why would that be? Want to be an Active Learner? Now you can Request to join www.penpositive.com . Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penpositive/ YouTube:...

After 100+ days of writing and daily podcasting, I have started thinking about style. Is that something we develop? Should one be bothered much about it. If we are trying to publish something yes. But if you look at it as a Journal should style matter. Can we manufacture style in journaling. Will that not be like fighting what is natural? Want to be an Active Learner? Now you can Request to join w...

It was last year… as the world was amidst the pandemic.. deaths mounting… no end in sight.. No news of vaccine.. at least for the common people like me. When hope was scarce, I got to witness an act of honesty. from a total stranger.  Want to be an Active Learner? Now you can Request to join www.penpositive.com . Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penpositive/ YouTu...

The first time heard about the sunk cost fallacy, I felt like quitting every crap I was doing then. To be honest it felt like I was in this never ending journey and the things that I dread repeating itself. But that was a few years ago.. And Yes I quit what I was doing then. Now you can Request to join www.penpositive.com . Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penpositive/...

The excitement of joining a new company might have changed a bit I feel. During the past one and a half years most people who joined across the various levels of the corporate machinery must have joined remotely and started delivering value in a remote setting. It is both interesting and challenging. Now you can Request to join www.penpositive.com . Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www....

We all know that machines and software can stop working.. we humans also slow down and stop working.. But machines and software get fixed faster than we humans do. In the present time if machines and software go down humans are impacted more than ever. Now you can Request to join www.penpositive.com . Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penpositive/ YouTube: https://www.y...

How should a homework conversation with your kid go. What are the things one should keep in mind as a parent? What questions should we ask kids? Is there even a need for such a conversation? Well, to be honest I have no clue if there is a ‘one size fits all’ answer to these questions. At least I have not seen one. All grown up by 20. Now you can Request to join www.penpositive.com . Connect on Soc...

Kids don’t get their driving license till they are a certain age. They are not allowed to drink or smoke. There are restrictions that the system puts on them. Even when they start driving the insurance costs are so high because the system considers kids to be high risk drivers. And yet we sometimes want our kids to act like they have figured it all. All grown up by 20. Now you can Request to join...

Whenever you ask people how the day was, they say Busy... Busy Busy and I wonder... is it really busy. Do people feel happy or unhappy when they are busy. Now you can Request to join www.penpositive.com . Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penpositive/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/penpositive Twitter: https://twitter.com/penpositive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com...

Today Marks the 100 days, I have been writing every single day and it feels good. Thought I will take some day to reflect on this and also see where it should take from here. Now you can Request to join www.penpositive.com . Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penpositive/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/penpositive Twitter: https://twitter.com/penpositive Facebook: http...

The beauty and satisfaction of working as an Agile Practitioner is that even while there is so much chaos around you, very often you stumble upon a new way of doing things that adds value to the team. Now you can Request to join www.penpositive.com . Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penpositive/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/penpositive Twitter: https://twitter.com/...

Active Learning is a process I define as a very engaging intentional focussed form of learning which then would manifest in such a way that every act of consumption will result in some form of learning. In my opinion this becomes ever more important in current times when mindless content consumption can drain us all the beauty of life and that content fatigue becomes a never ending process. Now yo...

Toothaches are one of the worst feelings. Well, all pain is bad and the worst is what we have experience right now. No I am not having a tooth ache but I went to see the dentist. And that too.. by accident…. how weird is that. Now you can Request to join www.penpositive.com . Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penpositive/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/penpositive Twi...

Growing up I was so afraid of darkness and being alone. It could have been the stories that I heard, movies I watched on TV or may be even what I read. We lived in a two story house and even going upstairs alone while people were in the house was kind of difficult. As they say some fears will go away only when you are ready to face it.. or when you are forced to face it. Now you can Request to joi...

We all have our ideas about distances. short.. long… and most times we connect that with time.. because we expect that distances are supposed to be covered.. travelled and that is their real existence. Now you can Request to join www.penpositive.com .  Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penpositive/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/penpositive Twitter: https://twitt...