morning boy's letters on serious matters and commentary on funny things aplenty
I see that the cheapest external mics for smart-phones are so cheap. Those available for dslr-like cameras are definitely pricier.
On the whole, the range of prices for mics is quite wide. I might have to buy a few of different types to understand the differences first hand. Right now a decent shotgun mic might work. But for my smartphone or big-sensor camera? That’s another decision. Stressing me.
Ex Girlfriend doesn’t quite capture her but let that be understood that we had a deep attachment.
She resides rent-free in my head for more than 2 decades. I too reside in her head rent-free; that I can quite easily gather.
We found ourselves in a really bad social situation. And she took big weird decisions. Post that, we talked on different occasions but I found myself resentful after every conversation.
While I can figure the contours of her thinking I would still like to be her for a day and see what it is like.
If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why?
MANAGE
That word ought to be banned.
MBAs abused it for long. Now most do.
It has percolated into the common parlance to such an extent that, once a word like that drops into a conversation, which it so often does and very early in the conversation, all conversation is in danger of being swept away and the person uttering that word feels like a genius to himself or herself.
What advice would you give to your teenage self?
Categorical.
Explore INDUSTRIAL DESIGN if you go to college and beyond.
And now I tried understanding the difference between engine and machine.
It seems to me as if I understood nothing about such matters back in school and, so rightfully, I am not a silly engineer.
Unbelievable what I am reading and understanding at this stage of my life. Word Blindness, atrocious!
First Google result on my screen:
Machine with moving parts converts the power into motion. A machine consumes energy whereas an engine produces energy. Engine converts heat energy to Mechanical Energy but machine converts all forms of energy to mechanical energy except heat energy. A engine runs a machine, without an engine a machine can’t run.
As much as I like to believe this, it sounds misleading. That last sentence above.
Without an engine a machine can’t run?!?!?!
Really?
You get some great, amazingly fantastic news. What’s the first thing you do?
The delivery of amazing news typically happens through the mobile phone.
I stop what I am doing and planning to do. Rise up on my feet, walk a bit in whichever space I find myself in, step out in the sun, walk a bit longer, and then daydream for some more time, and then start photographing more earrings.
I could give it any other name too.
It was only day before yesterday when I really pondered over the words motor and machine. I used them interchangeably.
What’s the difference?
The first result from Google:
Motor can be with or without an engine. Its function is to create rotation and get some work done through its rotation. Machine is something that reduces human effort. It works by the energy that is produced by the engine and motor.
Aaah, while I get it, I shall now have to ponder over motor, machine, engine, rotor et al.
Platforms, online marketplaces are motors that help you sell.
It took some time for me to get this. They are motors.
Imagine a thing called ‘marketplace’, yes there’s ‘place’ in there, has to be understood as a motor. It’s a motor. Place = Motor. Marketmotor?!
Brick and mortar stores can be called motors? Sure, but they do not feel like that.
Salesman connects with prospects, interacts and closes the deals.
There’s this who fetches the leads or helps the seller connect with prospects. The onus of deep interaction and closing the deal lies on the seller.
Architects, contractors, Interior designers are salesmen? May be aggregators too. They take a huge cut and have been steadily increasing the rate of the cut with every passing. Seller is just a stockist now.
Stitching an elastic waist is such a skill. I didn’t know. You knew?
How do you even find someone skillful at doing such a thing?
A jeweler competes with another jeweler, so goes the automatic thinking.
What competes with the activity of cycling? Sleeping, laziness, Tennis, watching TV? What competes?
Jeweler is competing with cheap sex. Jeweler doesn’t get this often. Jeweler talks and reads books on economics. Jeweler doesn’t get it that he is competing with cheap sex.
It just struck me.
Internet and IT-driven companies of all kinds harp so much about amassing data and analyzing to make their ‘strategic’ moves.
I read and observe that so many of us, perhaps a huge huge number, even safe to say that a good majority in certain age-groups, are addicted to checking mobile phones.
I take it that ‘addiction’ of any sort is undesirable. Unpleasant.
So, if so many of us are addicted, of course the data that gets accumulated is one of addiction. So these internet and IT-driven companies want to analyze data that’s full of addiction data, and make their moves based on this addiction data to solidify our addiction.
Fantastic!
That’s like asking for predictions… Plenty of life left I guess, so plenty of books to read surely.
In the next few days, I shall be reading Peter Levine’s works. I watched a couple of his Youtube videos on PTSD and behavior. And now I’ve got one of his books called Trauma and Memory.
What’s your dream job?
How does one dream of a job? Really!
I remember, once, I expressed something like, “If I could work with Michael Jackson in any capacity…”
You make such statements when you are young, musical and kind of delirious!
Dream Job, written with capital letters one can easily imagine that as a name of some one. Male? Female? Sounds like it can work for both.
Dream is to have a good body, job is to do macebell training. Good number of reps with good weights at the end of the mace! Possible.
I have to break it down for myself. What they call as CRM and Marketing Automations and such are actually message-sending machines. We receive also. But we are primarily demanding efficiencies in sending. Repeat. Message Sending Machines.
So you are able to collect a lot of data on Window-shopping.
Now you believe, that this data, in combination with easy debt, can make you sell 10 times or 20 times or 50 times of a category that would usually not sell as much.
Ha! That converts any category into an FMCG-like thing… Fast Moving XYZ. Fast Fashion, for once, a solid example.
So this huge quantity of data on Window-shopping has offered every marketer a chance to spray ads and reminders (with obnoxious abstract English and meanings) on Gmail, FB, Insta, Google, Whatsapp, and whatever other ad-dependent app frequently used.
Am pretty sure there are ‘Negative Returns’ once the frequency of Window-shopping crosses a certain limit, for the buyer and for the marketer both. And therefore, there would be ‘Negative Returns’ on data collected on Window-shopping too. And there would be ‘Negative Returns’ on all the processing and mulling done on the data collected on Window-shopping.
There can be a burst in ‘buying’ of a certain category, but beware of the thinking that tends towards FMCG-marketing. Enjoy the bursts, but can anyone stop the data-processes?
Returns on Window Shopping, that we must call as RoWS.
Negative Returns on Window Shopping, that we must call as NegRoWS.
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For those curious, I run Mississippi Earrings (https://www.mississippiearrings.com)
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