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Software People Stories — 398 episodes

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AI, Integration, and Innovation with Elangovan Shanmugam

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Leading Through Every Technology Wave with Indira vidyaprakash

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From Navy to SaaS to AI with Ian Hogg

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From H4 to CEO: Building a Life and Software Company with Rajashri Kidambi

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Reviving Developer Passion with Paramu Kurumathur

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From Gaming to Global Efficiency with Evan J Schwartz

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Navigating Career Curves and Breaks with Chaitra Rao

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Navigating Tech and Chaos with Tyler Wells

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Building a Business Dream with L A Balamurugan

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Unleashing Potential with Rajesh Sharma

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A real natural with Arundathi Rao

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Bits, Banking & Business Analytics with Muthusamy Vetrivel

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Beyond Coding: Thriving as a Thinker in the Age of AI with Manisha Deshpande

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Belong, Don't Blur with Dr. Vaijayanthi Srinivasaraghavan (Viji)

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Beyond Clean Tech: From Science to Scale with Hiranmayee Vedam

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Leading with Purpose with Sujatha Ramani

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Evolving Workplace Culture with Srini Sundararajan

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Building Global Tech Solutions with VR Govindarajan

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Knowledge Management Insights with Jordan Richards

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Navigating Technological Changes with Sudipta Lahiri

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Tech Entrepreneurial Insights with Bhargav Bhikkaji

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Navigating Career Paths with Anees Haidary

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Loving Failure and Learning Daily with Kumaran Anandan

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From Backend IT to Frontline Digital Transformation with Shubhangi

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New Year message from our Hosts

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Embracing Change and Challenges with Hasan Siddiqui

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Curiosity-Driven Success with Ravikiran Pothukuchi

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Evolving Security Practices with Ben Wilcox

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Empowering Developers with Yaron Schneider

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Numbers, Networks, and Nuance with Madhavan Jagannathan

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From Banking to Boardrooms with Rupam Tandon

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Bridging Engineering and Marketing with Mike Maynard

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Exploring Science and Technology Synergy with Prasad Chodavarapu

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Celebrating Seven Years: Reflections and Future Aspirations

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Full Stack Leadership with Dr. Krishna Prasad

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Achieving Excellence with Naresh Choudhary

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Adapting to Innovation with George Mundassery

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Navigating Tech Waves with Michael Ferranti

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Building Bridges Between Startups and Enterprises with Sunil David

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Exploring Cybersecurity Innovation with Jasson Casey

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Leadership Lessons in Tech with with Eric Müller

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Hollywood to Tech with Steven Puri

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Blending Roles, Breaking Ceilings with Shikha Munjal

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Data, Security, and Startups with Harish Chandramowli

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Engineering Futures and Purpose with Dr G Uma

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Technology and Society with Chris Miller and Allen Batteau

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Building the Future: From COBOL to AI with Spart Parthasarathy

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A Journey of Innovation and Challenges with Galvin Widjaja

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Insights into Dev Tooling with Tom Elliott

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Story of a fractional CTO with Thanos Diacakis

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Rewiring Careers, Redefining Impact with Anu Dwaraknath

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Passion, Patents, and Powering Down AI with Fred Jordan

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Entrepreneurship, AI, and Social Impact with Santosh Kaveti

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Interpretability and Explainability with Aruna Chakkirala

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Selling IT based solutions with Deepak Mittal

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Involving Communities in Product Development with Jake McKee

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From Theater to entrepreneurship with Stamatis Astra

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Amplifying Reinvention with Deeksha Senguttuvan

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From COBOL to AI with Allen Cooper

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Exploring Peer-to-Peer Tech with Mathias Buus Madsen

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From code to community with Sundar Rajan

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Unlock Yourself along with the People around you with Sunil (SKG) Gupta

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Conversation with a Cloud Computing Pioneer, David Young

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Believing in the happenstance of hard work with Karthik (KK) Karunakaran

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Adaptability, Empathy, and Breaking Comfort Zones with Veena Rao

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Journey in Innovation & Leadership with Ponni Krishnamoorthy

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Learn, Unlearn and Re-Learn with Bindhu Unny

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Startup Struggles to Global Leadership with Vidya Kabra

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Full Stack leadership with Paramu Kurumathur

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Live a life that you are excited about with Rachana Shenoy

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Building a strong interoperability solution with Rachana Shenoy

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Creating and Nurturing High Performance Teams with Hikari Senju

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Serial Entrepreneurial experience with Hikari Senju

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AI and customer experience with David G Ewing

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Customer experience first with David G Ewing

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Balancing priorities with Gorkem Ercan

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Contributing to the Open Source movement with Gorkem Ercan

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UX for developers with Sophia Willows- Part2

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Astronaut to Head of Engineering- Part1 with Sophia Willows

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Understand Business Catalyst with Lekha Bajpai – Part2

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Bring Your Own AI to Work with Lekha Bajpai - Part1

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Leveraging AI for developers with Greg Foster - part 2

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Passion for developer experience with Greg Foster - part 1

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Celebrating Six Years of podcasting

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S-curve with Santana Krishnan

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S-Curve with Srinivasan Sundararajan

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S-curves with Mohan Ram

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S-curves with Anantha Natarajan

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S-curves with Gopalan

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S-curves with Paramu Kurumathur

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Maintaining Composure, being productive with Ben Johnson

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Building a strong team culture with Ben Johnson

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Collaborating teams with Douglas Ferguson

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Leadership lessons with Douglas Ferguson

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Working with the Government with Karthik Viswanathan

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IT solutions in the Government with Karthik Viswanathan

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Entrepreneurship with Ravi Krishnappa

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Being insanely curious with Ravi Krishnappa

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One Company careers with Gunaseelan Narayanan

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Growing as a leader with Gunaseelan Narayanan

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driving positive change with Sapna Jhawer

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Strategic Vision, Collaborative Leadership style by Sapna Jhawer

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Teamwork and mentorship with C Subramanian (CS)

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Learning and Growing with C Subramanian - CS

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Successful outsourcing partnerships with Andy Hillard

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Essentials of outsourcing with Andy Hillard

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Being an architect with Mike Bowers

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Architecting database engines with Mike Bowers

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Architecting solutions for the social sector with Vijayashree Urs

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Late career options with Shekhar Chandra

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Staying curious and adaptable with Harpreet Singh

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Corporate, Entrepreneurship and Social impact with Vinaya Mallya

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No guilt career breaks with Amita Ardha

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The New Indian Woman, Krishna

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Travel, Media & Software

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Creating an Authentic Identity

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Panel Discussion on Enterprise Agility

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3 Authors 1 Amazing Book

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Documentation Dogma in Software with Prema Dhas Mohunraj

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Shortening the Cycle time in Automotive Space with Prema Dhas Mohunraj

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Analytics and planning with Srinivasan Sundararajan

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Golden Optimals with Mohan Ram

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Year end thoughts with Chitra and Gayatri

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Year end thoughts with Kurumathur Param

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Year end thoughts with Gopalan

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Year end thoughts with Anantha Natarajan

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Creating your great day every day with Bharath Kumar

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Collaborate, to simplify problems and solutions with Tom Pierce

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Military experience and software development with Tom Pierce

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Secure development with Jeremy Snyder

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Scaling to the cloud with Jeremy Snyder

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Accelerating Business Outcomes with Nanthakumar Arumugam

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Don't Choose an Easy Path with Saikat Chakrabarty

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Smart hiring for startups with Prasenjit Sarkar

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Joys and pains of entrepreneurship with Prasenjit Sarkar

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Building Confidence and Career with Kamala Srinivasa

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Becoming a consultant with Dan Balcauski

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Pricing Software Services with Dan Balcauski

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Making teaching exciting with Shailaja Venkatasubramanyan

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Balancing professional and personal pressures with Shailaja Venkatasubramanyan

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Modeling the celestial objects with Kishore Kumar

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Software professional to Youtuber with Kishore Kumar

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Being in the limelight puts a spotlight with Mathan Ramanujam

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Harnessing your curiosity with Mathan Ramanujam

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Anticipating adverse events with Matt Genovese

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Diving inside the black box with Matt Genovese

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Personal lessons from podcasting with guest host Gopalan

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Celebrating 250 with guest host Gopalan

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Try experiments Over Talking with Woody Zuill

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Leading from With”Out” with Woody Zuill

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Navigating ambiguity with Mohan Ram

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Attention to details with Mohan Ram

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Creating a courageous and inclusive environment with Vadeesh

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Multiplexing across Domains with Vadeesh Budramane

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Understanding 5 key way of Agility in AI world with Fred George

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Continuously Stay Transparent with Fred George

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Agenda Shifter with Karl Scotland

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Creating Change Makers with Karl Scotland

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Limit Is What You Set with Vikrant Viniak

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Build Better Software Faster with Dave Farley

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Creating 10X Teams with Dave Farley

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Success through shared goals with Venu Subramania Iyer

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A passion for testing with Venu Subramania Iyer

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Building a platform that performs with Robert Cooke

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A coder at heart with Robert Cooke

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Lasting Impact and Tea Shop Conversations with Sathyanarayanan Vijayaraghavan

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Embedded programming to heading Cloud Platforms with Bindu

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Democratizing education of Space with Pramitha

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Micro and Macro Goals with Puja Issar

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Connecting the Dots in the career and life journey with Vaishali James

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Intersection of social change, technology and data science with Palashi V

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Design is like poetry with Jeremy Kriegal

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Creativity is everybody’s job with Jeremy Kriegel

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Continuously Curious with Rohit Salecha

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Embrace Code in Everything with Rohit Salecha

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Connecting at all levels with Bill Hall

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Simulation based learning with Bill Hall

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Being a Fremen with Steven Aberle

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The potential of Large Language Models with Steven Aberle

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Reflections with PM Power coaches

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A Message from the Co-hosts

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Supporting usage of technology with Baktha Muralidharan

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Selecting appropriate technology with Baktha Muralidharan

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Scaling your company with Maha Mahadevan

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Startup, stay focused with Maha Mahadevan

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Social aspects of teamwork with Jutta Eckstein

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Teaching, consulting and coaching with Jutta Eckstein

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Co-founder chemistry with Scott Ford

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Modernizing software with Scott Ford

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Building to learn with Dorai Thodla

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Technopreneurship with Dorai Thodla

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Starting up as a team with Yev Khessin

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Helping Objects in Motion with Yev Khessin

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Following the money with Sam Fonoimoana

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Building respectful relationships with Ramesh Rajagopal

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Shop Floor experience with Ramesh Rajagopal

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Riding the wave with K Ramkumar

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Lessons in work life harmony

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Cutting edge work with Sowmya Gopalan and Ramya Gopalan

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Innovation, Incubation and starting up with Jani

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Learning from new roles with Janakiraman (Jani) Srinivasan

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Employee #1 experience

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Startup founders formula with Sai Krishna

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Plumbing for the metaverse with Sai Krishna

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Finding solutions with self reliance with Usha

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Techie turned investor with Abhay Havaldar

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OS, products, innovation and coaching with K Nageswar Rao (KNR)

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Writing for developers with Karl Hughes

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Using data for Organizational excellence with Satyendra Kumar = Part2

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Getting the bigger picture with Satyendra Kumar-Part1

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Product Thinking with Harish Achappa

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The joys of reading with Brij Sethi

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Abstracting needs, creating solutions with V Thyagarajan

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Being Objectively critical with Muktesh Murthy

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Rising to any Challenge with Cynthia Swarnalatha

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Innovating to save lives and more with Scott Schober

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Being the best in the world with Tarush Aggarwal

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The Glass is half full with Baiju Joseph Thalupadath

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Freedom is always there with Poornima Shenoy

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Don't Predict just Adapt with Jaya Vaidhyanathan

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Starting young with Anjali Jayaraman

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Promoting conversations with Krupa NS

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If you are not growing, you are falling behind with Joseph Wong

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Venturing beyond your comfort zone with Jacob Kurian - part 2

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Venturing beyond your comfort zone with Jacob Kurian - part 1

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Being in the learning zone with Kartic Vaidyanathan

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Riding the Sinusoidal wave with Prakash Bulusu

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Leapfrogging the technology with Pallav Prakash

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Understanding the Why first with Nani Narayanan Srinivasan

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Immersing into data lineage and career contours with Sriram Rangarajan

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Curiosity and crafting stories with Sivakumar

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Power of Observation and Note Taking with Vasu

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Maintaining calm under pressure with Gopalan

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From ideas to actions with Paramu Kurumathur

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Pacing your activities with Raghu Viswanathan

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When Passion is Work with Raksha Rao

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Career transition success mantras with Nash Narasimhan

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Making the Leap with Raghu Srinivas

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Transitions to Middle Management with Dr Krishna Prasad

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Building Communities with Naresh Jain

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Lifelong learning with Dr. Asoke Talukder

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One Shot at a Time with Seema Joshi

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Having an experimental mindset with Tom Henriksen

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Transferring knowledge to others with Gopalaswamy Ramesh

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Progressively being in the Discomfort zone with Jayashree Rajagopalan

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Solving your manager’s problems with Anantha Natarajan

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Putting more software into hardware with Srinivasa Raghavan

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Getting things done with Jayaraman (Raghu) Raghuraman

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The art of saying no with Raminder Rathore

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Software Match Makers with Mohan Panchapikesan

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Genesis of a company with Sanjay Jayakumar

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It’s not about the software with Bhuvan Anandakrishnan

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Software development is a societal sport with Hendrik Esser

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Mixed Tapes & 100 Stories with Madhavi Nadig

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Crafting software to crafting toys with Ramesh Shastri

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Patience, Capital and Building Products with Madhurima Agarwal

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Managing complex programs by influence with Srilakshmi Ranganathan

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Outthinking a hacker with Ted Harrington

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A Developer for Life with Raja

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More than Writing Code with Dr.Neeta Trivedi

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Weaving a Fabric with Amrita Samuel

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Visualizing Code with Chuck Weindorf

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Staying Human with Amit Sarangi

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A Founder's story with Seethaprasad Mandikel

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The Ship in Leadership with Sanjay Tambwekar

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A People's Technologist with Pragati Ogal Rai

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Reading and Symbiosis with Ranjani Mani

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Lifelong Learning Tips with Hamsa Ravikiran

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Outcomes for Other People with Shane Hastie

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Decision Making in Startups with Sunil Mukundan

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Mutual Respect & Support with Maha & Lakshmi

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Networking and Technology with Manju and Rajiv Kuchhal

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Staying Relevant with Priya and Sridhar Parthasarathy

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Two In Step with Pratibha and Sirish Batchu

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Decisions, Digital & Dynamics with Naresh Bansal

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Abstract, Isolate, Interface & Automate with Dr Pramod Varma

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Being One with your Target with Jerome Ruwe

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Crafting Software with Liran Haimovitch

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A Pathfinder's Story with Guruprasad Krishnan

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DOer to Get-it-Done-er with J Veeraraaghavan

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Product Thinking Trifecta with Ujjwal Trivedi

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Coaches' Reflections with PM Power Coaches - 2

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Coaches' Reflections with PM Power Coaches - 1

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Continuish Ikigai with Krishna Prasad

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Business as Usual or Not? With Sunita Rao

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Game, Set and Mind with Badri Narayanan

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Exploring New Frontiers with Anuradha Venkatesh

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Moments of Magic with Sundara Sukavanam

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Embracing Digital with Pravin Gandhi

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3x3 Kaleidoscope with Kishan Malur

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Exploring Different Realms with Preethy Padmanabhan

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The CIO who hated IT once with Manoj Deorukhkar

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Listening Right and Receiving Gifts with Deepak Visveswaraiah

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Your Network Selects You with Pankaj Rai

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See, Engineer, Build with Anu Kannan

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Special Episode: Stories behind People Stories

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Celebrating Century Stories

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Mnemonics and Improv

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When Work is Play

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Shifting Sands

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Four Innings Career

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95: Taking Calculated Risks

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94: 5 Tantras of Enterprise Agility

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93: Answering the What IF?

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92: Cascading Passions

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91: Changing Ecosystems

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90: For the Joy of Learning

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89: Twists and a Tale

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88: Stories of Self Belief

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87: From Order Takers to Agenda Setters

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86: Shifting Mindsets

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85: Hunger to Learn

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84: Think Just Enough

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83: Trusted Relationships and Education

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82: Cloud Maturity and API Dynamics

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81: Data, Risk & Decisions

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80: Machine Learning and EQ 2.0

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79: Resilience & Passion

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77: Purpose Oriented Products

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78: Lockdown Lessons in Agility

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76: Leader or Individual Contributor

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75: Software for Different Countries

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74: Signal Processing to Data Engineering

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73: Comics and Cybersecurity

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72: Software and Cinema

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71: Dispersed Teams - 7

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70: Dispersed Teams - 6

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69: Dispersed Teams - 5

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68: Dispersed Teams - 4

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67: Algorithms and Systems Thinking

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66: Dispersed Teams - 3

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65: Dispersed Teams - 2

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64: Dispersed Teams - 1

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63: New Narratives, Beyond Binaries

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62: Magic and Dialogue

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61: Transforming Education

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60: Knowledge is Power

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59: Balancing Future Tech v/s Immediate Solutions

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58: Diving Deep into Data

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57: Off-Roading and Messy Hands

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56: Dilemmas and Honesty

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55: Creating a Rhythm in your career

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Thank you, Happy New Year!

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54: Insights from vignettes

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53: 2nd Generation Product Technologist

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52: Helping Society in Many Ways

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51: A Career Retrospective

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50: Paying it Forward

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49: Embracing New Avatars

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48: An Adaptable Career

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47: Flows and Transitions

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46: A Courageous Decision

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45: The Mind of an Author

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44: A Technologist at Heart

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43: 4 Decades in 2 Phases

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42: Re-Discovery and Agility

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41: Everything comes around

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40: Transformation Stories

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39: Confidence and Constant Learning

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38: Photo Processing to Product Management

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37: Banana peels and monocultures

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36: A Life Full of Stories

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35: An Inevitable Entrepreneur

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34: Databases and Digital Newbies

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33: Dreaming Wild, Applying AI

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32: Estimation and Planning

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31: Engineering Software to Software Engineering

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30: Observation and Detail Orientation

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29: Digital Journeys

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28: Emerging from our cocoons

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27: Of Pascal, programming and performing systems

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26: Thoughts and Things

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25: Experiments & Discovery

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24: Helping teams be effective

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23: Building for a global user experience

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22: Empathy, with a dose of patience

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21: Work Life Rhythm

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20: Innovation & Discovery

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19: Just Be - Right Now!

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18: Curiosity, Continuous Learning & Collaboration

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17: Standards, Startups and Spousal support

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16: Happy Customers, Happy Employees.

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15: Puzzles & Perceptions, WorkEthic & Humanistic Insights

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14: Transitions, Transformations and Annual Appraisal for Couples

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13: Architecting software solutions and Conscious career breaks

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12: Mission Critical systems, Basketball and Women in Tech

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11: Testing Stories and the Startup Bug

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10: The Business of Excellence, Coaching & Podcasting

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9: Data Science, Outcomes

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8: Product Engineering, Personal Values and Teamwork

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7: Microproducts & Building to Learn

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6: Cross Country Cultures

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5: Writing better software by trekking

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4: World Views and Natural Software Engineering

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3: Power of Conversations

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Managing an Agile Transformation for Success

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Culture, Protocol, and Other Stories

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