morning boy's letters on serious matters and commentary on funny things aplenty
All the necessary repetitions are very much in place. Adding more should be a lot of stress any way.
FOMO, fear of missing out, begs the question ‘missing out on what’. On what? Entertainment? My sense is missing out on the STIMULUS.
But one STIMULUS is sufficient to set one on track for years. Once the stimulus does its job, time to step into repetitions…
I buy a fountain pen that’s been on my mind but not in my collection yet.
But times change. On some other occasions, I call my partner up and that is that.
You can port yourself out of one pair of trousers into another. Easy as anything.
You cannot port your data out of Facebook into another kind of Facebook-like thing.
Any organization that has recorded and organized its data using some ERP, can it easily port that data out into another ERP?
This expression has been thrown around for ages now.
BE YOURSELF.
And often the shorter word BE is understood to be the more difficult one. It occurs to me that BE is rather simple. One of the rare verbs that is simple.
YOURSELF? Determining that is a task. Mighty task.
Do you pack the thing you want to keep preserved? Then take the pain to place an elaborately written label on the packing.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Yes, I have gotten slightly better as a Google Machine Operator. No boasting. Just an update.
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?”
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…
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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