Product Management and Whole-Brain Thinking

I was new to Product Management a couple of years back.

Prior to that I was put into situations where the demand was either for analytical thinking or for Creative Thinking.

Project management, process engineering, SDLC roll out, programming, leading large team of students for university competitions. All related to logical or analytical thinking. Doing things using your left brain.

Drawing, Painting, Stage decoration, magazine designing, creativity head of events, participating in arts competitions. All related to creative or imaginative thinking. Doing things using your right brain.

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A Walk around the Jews Street, Fort Kochi, Kerala, India

Its a whole new world when you step into the Jews Street at Fort Cochin. You see closely packed houses and shops that share walls. Small streets that lead you to a Synagogue that share its compound walls with a Temple. Aroma of spices fill up the air. Art emporiums, an old man behind an old broken window, tourists walking around clicking pics. A picture you see anytime you visit this place… Continue reading

Mahuligad – Meeting the Tree of Knowledge

Travelling teaches you many life lessons. Its to learn that you travel. To learn through experience. To learn through the thoughts that flash by. To learn through people we meet. Its said that people who buy experiences over things are most happiest. The intrinsic value that an experience has to offer is something that doesn’t die as how they say in the law of diminishing marginal utility. Instead it grows with you. Memories and thoughts are living things you meet as you travel. It follows you throughout your life. They grow, get older and mature with you, as you mature with it…

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