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  • Un-revisitable Data

    The amount of data getting accumulated for every single person cannot be revisited by that person or by any person at all. Except the bots.

    But yes, something may have to be retrieved from such data. At what time, what date? 5 years from now? 2 years from now? Who even knows!

    All the storage in the world is created for such data.

    But if you attempt to store in your own individual capacity, you would lose most of it. Why? Digital storage media, at least the popular ones, are not durable.

    And so you pay for digital data storage that is un-revisitable. And you keep paying. Only bots can revisit. You can retrieve something essential only if you remember that it is in storage and if you know what to ask to the machine to retrieve such data.

    Incredible phenomenon!

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  • Reviews need to be split!

    That’s right. There are sellers (who stock and trade in branded goods) and there are brand-owners, and then there are platforms.

    The three entities are different. I see that mistakes made by platforms and sellers often put the brand down.

    Take this for example. I search for a product on Amazon. I see the star-reviews. I notice low-star-reviews too. I am curious why the product has gotten such bad reviews. I check the reviews out. Turns out the seller or the delivery partner with whom the seller has partnered is at fault.

    The first look of those low-star-reviews is misleading. Works against the brand-owners.

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  • The Grind

    What is something others do that sparks your admiration?

    The grind that one chooses to undergo to make something happen, that which can only be seen by very few who are around when one is going through it.

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  • Soft Skills

    Why do we see messiness in all sorts of businesses, teams and organizations?

    Here’s one reason. Language skills, communication skills are treated as ‘Soft Skills’.

    To make matters more messy, HR guys arrange training programs for ‘Soft Skills’.

    Parents make youngsters join ‘Soft Skills’ training institutes.

    There are other names too under which you are expected to softly absorb the Soft Skills. We know those names, no? New, more inventive names can be expected as we witness the softness envelop the world.

    And the Linkedinite who has undergone such ‘Soft Skills’ training and who tom-toms ‘Soft Skills’ as her mighty strength in her CV, will argue, “What do you know huh! It is so so hard to master Soft Skills; you can write here whatever. And so it is Soft Skills after all. Sofffft sofffft sofffft! You don’t know anything, Soni. Work happens because there is a softness in the words we utter, the manner in which we utter. Be soffft!”

    Do you smile? Do you smile when you talk? Isn’t it soffft then? Smile makes work happen.

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  • The Fight against Dust

    In your fight against Dust, dust wins.

    You have to find a protocol to enjoy Dust, to live with it and make it beautiful.

    This is a difficult one many Indian women.

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  • Better?

    By sitting for hours and trying to listen?

    Or, by moving intensely for a few moments and then writing about our experience?

    What makes us learn better?

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  • Dictionary

    What’s the coolest thing you’ve ever found (and kept)?

    The thing about ‘keeping’ is ‘where are you keeping it’.

    The way folks keep their mobile phones tells me that mobile phone is the coolest thing for most of us. And then the way they keep the mobile-camera’s button-icon or instagram’s button-icon on their mobile phones would tell us that those are the coolest things in their lives.

    For quite a while, I carried my dictionary like I carry my mobile phone these days.

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  • Reader & Buyer

    Consider the analogy. Improve it for me of you like.

    Story ▪︎ Novel ▪︎ Reader

    Product ▪︎ Description ▪︎ Buyer

    Buyer often can’t make sense of the description. To be a good buyer, one may do better by being a good reader?

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  • Economics of…

    Have you ever come across any substantial analysis of Economics of Data Collection?

    Since they have been saying for almost 2 decades in the popular media ‘data is the new oil’, have they come to formulating any economics of data collection?

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  • Strange Ways of Discovering Quality

    I’ve been using this Philips trimmer-shaver for quite a few years now.

    Only this morning I powered it with this brand new battery, Eveready Ultima Alkaline.

    My trimmer-shaver never ever worked this way. Never ever. Never ever. And I never got a better trim than this.

    All the while I used Duracell to power this gadget. And all the experiences of using this made me feel like these trimmers-shavers behave in a certain ‘non-satisfactory’ way; that’s the way they are built, that’s the limit of their performance, no matter the brand or company.

    Today’s experience with this Eveready Ultima Alkaline changed it all. Only now I get it that the gadget was actually made for such a performance. And only today I was in a position to experience and compare the performances.

    I thought Duracell was the best; the gadget was built like that. Turns out the gadget was built for a super performance and Duracell was the culprit.

    It didn’t have to be this way but it has turned out this way. Even with all the awareness and heightened senses, it takes time to discover what’s quality.

    Remember, Eveready Ultima Alkaline. No, I am not paid to promote this but the drastic difference in my shaving experience makes me write for it.

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  • You don’t set out to invent

    Daily writing prompt
    Invent a holiday! Explain how and why everyone should celebrate.
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    You set out to learn. In the process, an invention can take place.

    Holiday is a post-facto tag that I give to any day or a section of time.

    If I learn well on any particular day, I count that as a holiday. Because the relief and relaxation I feel at the end of that day or that section of time is bigger than anything.

    Writing a post and connecting with some folks who understand what I am trying to convey is celebration.

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  • Gotten Slightly Better

    Yes, I have gotten slightly better as a Google Machine Operator. No boasting. Just an update.

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  • In-come / In-coming

    Pardon the hyphen in those two words. It just occurred to me that two words mean very different things in usual parlance.

    Income

    Incoming

    The trigger for this thought? The word ‘inbox’.

    What occurs in the mind must be the most important ‘in’ word, no? In-head / inhead? In-mind / inmind?

    Of course, when talking with others, folks often speak, “what’s in your head?” But when talking with one’s own self, it feels appropriate to say, “what’s inhead?”

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  • One More Question

    What is the opposite of Theory?

    A question stemming from that… Can there be an opposite of something called Theory?

    All these questions, and all these posts, have the potential to turn into pages. And pages can turn into something more…

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  • Social Media Machines

    Servers can serve as serving machines. Your tap on the FB icon is asking the server to serve you with something. Not necessarily decided by you what you ought to be served.

    Servers can’t be turned into distribution machines. Just because you post doesn’t mean your post is going everywhere or to everyone.

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  • Worming About Words

    What’s the trait you value most about yourself?

    Think of the word STORAGE.

    The way this word feels when spoken or written… As if everything in STORAGE is safe and sound and stationary and available when required.

    Turns out that Digital Storage is anything but safe and sound and stationary and available when required.

    When I worm about words, I come to know all sorts of things about our own behavior and machinations.

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  • What is a part of what?

    Marketers have for long been harping on ‘creating experiences’ and ‘going beyond the product’.

    My question:

    Is product a part of the experience? Or, is experience a part of the product?

    We have Venn diagrams and we have sets and subsets and such concepts and theories. And yet when it comes to behaving, operating and moving in this world to organize ourselves and accomplish certain things, these concepts can lead us astray.

    If product is a part of the experience, then experience would need a name and need a software like charting of paths and protocols. Once that is done experience becomes the product or part of the product. In which case, it would be great to begin with the premise that ‘experience is a part of the product’. And then look at how expansive or how narrow you want the experience to be for your customers. Then you look at effectiveness, productivity and efficiency and other measurements that you have.

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  • Not one thing

    What motivates you?

    The question feels incomplete even though it can be answered.

    Book with a riveting title.

    Names.

    A unique word.

    A couplet.

    Fresh morning air.

    The thought of running.

    Ideas that swirl in my head early morning.

    Looking at a lovely face.

    A good night’s sleep.

    Jump squats with weights.

    Motivation is hidden in so many moments. And often I only figure the ‘what’ long after the moments have passed by.

    Can we ask a question like, “What motivates the body to breathe?”

    Motivation is often as obvious or unobvious as that. Body has its reasons but it may not have the words often.

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  • What Justice Gautam Patel means…

    What Justice Gautam Patel means:

    STRAY DOG = MOVING DOG

    That means:

    NON-STRAY = SLEEPING (effectively, Stationary or Non-moving dogs. Or, Show-pieces)

    Now I get it.

    STRAY DOG = RAPIDLY REPRODUCING DOG

    High Court guys feed the dogs to keep them sleeping. Dogs sleep and go astray and reproduce. That is why they are STRAY DOGS.

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  • Beauty

    Beauty = Organization + Neatness in Organization

    Elegance = Organization + Moving in and through Organization

    Great Experience = Beauty + Elegance

    Does that resonate?

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