Penpositive Podcast

I have had several instances in life where I have had to start from scratch. It did not feel that great always. But recently I heard this phrase “Starting from Zero is the fun”. And that got me thinking, why would it be fun? Now you can Request to join www.penpositive.com . Also you can listen to the weekly podcast 'The Minimal Agilist' https://anchor.fm/minimalagile . Connect on Social Media: Ins...

Stress is a word I started hearing more when I got into my thirties and from then on, it is a word that I have often used and heard in both my personal and professional life. I also don’t remember my parents having a chat with me about it. Did we stress less back then? But today things are different and these are conversations we should have. Click here to read Rahi's blog . Also you can listen to...

When we consume content do we even bother if it is relevant, valid, true, factual, current. We are bombarded with so much content and information that it needs double the time to figure out if it is something we can rely on. Click here to read Rahi's blog . Also you can listen to the weekly podcast 'The Minimal Agilist' https://anchor.fm/minimalagile . Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://w...

I grew up sharing food with my classmates and continued to do that while I was working. Till I came to US and figured people have their own dietary restrictions. Even then we had our small group that will sit together and share and eat. And yes this was when we used to go to the offices. But now it looks like sharing our food in school and offices have all ended. Also Listen to my weekly podcast '...

I feel like saying something today. tomorrow I might change my stand and people might say you are contradicting your past stand. In a world where contradiction is seen as a very bad thing… is it ok for people to contradict what they say? Also Listen to my weekly podcast 'The Minimal Agilist' https://anchor.fm/minimalagile . Join our Community of Active Learners: https://www.penpositive.com/ ...

Some days you are very tired and you have valid reasons for it. For me when I get tired like that, it also kind of stops my energy in many things including recording this episode. But then some activities have to be done to get the tiredness behind. Also Listen to my weekly podcast 'The Minimal Agilist' https://anchor.fm/minimalagile . Join our Community of Active Learners: https://www.penpositive...

So cheating is bad... But can some cheating be ok. Now don't start thinking about all the kind of cheating you have done in life. Because we use the word cheating in a lot of different ways. As of now I am cheating. I will tell you how.  Also Listen to my weekly podcast 'The Minimal Agilist' https://anchor.fm/minimalagile . Join our Community of Active Learners: https://www.penpositive.com/&n...

I keep talking about continuous learning, but then when someone asks me what are you learning, I might have to think. Do books I read count? Does Articles I read count? What about conversations? Videos.. movies?.. just work…? Listen to my weekly podcast 'The Minimal Agilist' https://anchor.fm/minimalagile . Join our Community of Active Learners: https://www.penpositive.com/  Connect on Social...

There was a time in the past when even short durations could fit in large and meaningful conversations that hang around in your mind even after it is ended. They open up spaces inside us where we can fill in new knowledge and even use that to unlearn some of the things we already know. Listen to my weekly podcast 'The Minimal Agilist' https://anchor.fm/minimalagile . Join our Community of Active L...

There is the creator economy. I am not sure if it is for everyone, but I think everyone should create. Becoming a Creator is not about having a million followers. It is much more personal and valuable than that. Listen to my weekly podcast 'The Minimal Agilist' https://anchor.fm/minimalagile . Join our Community of Active Learners: https://www.penpositive.com/  Connect on Social Media: Instag...

Suspended straight jacket escape is one of the most famous Houdini trick. Yesterday I felt that writing did such a trick for me. It helped me tremendously… to get out of a mental space I was stuck. Not just that I also learned a few things interesting about me. Listen to my weekly podcast 'The Minimal Agilist' https://anchor.fm/minimalagile . Join our Community of Active Learners: https://www.penp...

There are feelings that are tough to explain in words. I have such incidents at times. It is weird but I will try to explain it here. or attempt to put it in words. Listen to my weekly podcast 'The Minimal Agilist' https://anchor.fm/minimalagile . Join our Community of Active Learners: https://www.penpositive.com/  Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penpositive/ 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.. Listen to my weekly podcast 'The Minimal Agilist' https://anchor.fm/minimalagile . Join our Community of Active Learners: https://www.penpositive.com/  Connect...

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 they had just completed… Now they need to travel to become a facilitator of learning? Listen to my weekly podcast...

A November Sunday a Novel… around 56 thousand words… completely written in a moving train as part of the daily commute to San Francisco in 30 days in a November in 2011. Not sure if One should call it a Novella instead of a Novel. Listen to my weekly podcast 'The Minimal Agilist' https://anchor.fm/minimalagile . Join our Community of Active Learners: https://www.penpositive.com/  Connect on S...

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. Listen to my new podcast 'The Minimal Agilist' https://anchor.fm/minimalagile . Join our Community of Active Learners: https://www.penpositive.com/&n...

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. Listen to my new podcast 'The Minimal Agilist' https://anchor.fm/minimalagile . Join our Community of Active Learners: https://www.penpositive.com/  Connect on Social Media: Insta...

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. Listen to my new podcast 'The Minimal Agilist' https://anchor.fm/minimalagile . Join our Community of Active Learners: https://www.penpositive.com/&nbs...

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? Listen to my new podcast 'The Minimal Agilist' https://anchor.fm/minimalagile . Join our Community of Active Learners: https://www.penpositive.com/&nbsp...

Today as I was driving my son to school, we were listening to the American Life Podcast that narrated the plight of an Afghan family trying to get out of the country. A heart wrenching story explained through the conversation of two people. Listening to that my mind went back more than 4 decades to a time in Iran when I was probably 8 years old. Listen to my new podcast 'The Minimal Agilist' https...

I don’t know if you have felt this way. Your enthusiasm of being at work on the first day is burst like a balloon by people who tell you have bad things are…. what kind of a mess you have gotten into… OK may be not day 1 but as you go by the week. Well I have and when I tried to analyze more in that my reading was way different. Listen to my new podcast 'The Minimal Agilist' https://anchor.fm/mini...

Yesterday I was thinking about all those things that excited me immediately after college. Just one of those weird trips I make into the past. And I was surprised with what I found. Listen to my new podcast 'The Minimal Agilist' https://anchor.fm/minimalagile . Join our Community of Active Learners: https://www.penpositive.com/  Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pe...

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. Listen to my new podcast 'The Minimal Agilist' https://anchor.fm/minimalagile . Join our Community of Active Learners: https://www.penpositive.com/  Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penposi...

The question is becoming even more relevant with time. May be it is because there is choice. In olden days the choice was non existent for a majority of people. The elite always had choices. That is why we see that when the masses toiled in fields and factories… the elites dabbled on poetry and philosophy. Things have changed. Listen to my new podcast 'The Minimal Agilist' https://anchor.fm/minima...

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 take you through my friends list. Listen to my new podcast 'The Minimal Agilist' https://anchor.fm/minimalagile . Join our Community of...