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  • I won’t dream of any job!

    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.

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  • Message Sending Machines

    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.

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  • Return on Window Shopping

    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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  • 8 sets of 4 each

    What I’ve done is this: I’ve limited every set of push-ups to 10, every set of chin-ups to 4. As a result, I am able to cross 200 push-ups fairly easily. I am able to do 8 sets of chin-ups quiet comfortably.

    Earlier, I would push myself to almost failure in the first set itself. Subsequent sets, I would struggle and would have to push myself to failure. The reps in sets fluctuated. Felt erratic. Sometimes just didn’t get a satisfying feeling. And would get hyper tired.

    Let’s see how this change shapes my effort.

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  • Protonics & Neutronics

    Electron 》》》Electronics

    Extending this relationhip to other related words…

    Proton? 》》》Protonics?

    Neutron? 》》》Neutronics?

    Are there books that delve into these too?

    Let me try a search.

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  • What the… is happening!

    Google depends on writing.

    Folks aren’t reading.

    Folks are happy scrolling. Instagram is happy offering scrolls and scrolls and more scrolls.

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  • What do these coinages mean?

    Some words and coinages related to my favorite subject, maintenance.

    Maintain | Maintainer

    Maintenance | Maintenancer

    And I detest the meaninglessness that ‘manage’ has fallen into.

    Manage | Manager

    Management | Managementer

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  • Googster

    It is a new expression to capture a phenomenon observed for a few years now.

    (n.) A youngster who feels informed and intelligent because of using Google.

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  • Can’t imagine but…

    What could you do differently?

    I can’t imagine doing any differently. I was an intelligent show-off. Dabbler, and so undirected. So full of boredom and activity.

    But yes, if someone looked with deep interest in my routines and proclivities and outputs, that someone could’ve pushed me into developing craft-hands. I could be making shoes too, instead of selling just earrings. Or who knows what else!

    Some other could’ve nudged me in a way to enable me to make better provisions for a life full of reading. But then, could it be any different from what it is right now. I simply read everything I want to.

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  • Paul Barnes

    How stupid!

    Not reading Julian Barnes, coz I mistook him for Paul Auster in my visual head. What kind of nut does that! My kind.

    Sorry Sir Barnes, my loss after all.

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  • Steps

    Planner

    To-do list

    Productivity Tools

    Bullet Journal

    None of these expressions and names convinced me. Something about them makes the coming moments, the day of work feel so heavy. Yaaaaaawn!

    Couple of days back, the expression ‘steps’ struck me. Born to take steps. Woke up to take steps. Filling the day with steps. Dynamic and hope-inducing.

    Next steps?

    List of steps?

    Steps today?

    Steps yesterday?

    Steps towards?

    Do you some difference? What’s your sense?

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  • Space as Machine

    Come to think of it.

    A piece of paper filled with your notes, lying somewhere in a pile of papers on your shelf in your room. You can sift through your papers any time of the day or month or year and pull it out in case you feel like referring to it.

    The very same notes typed into a word file, lying somewhere on some ‘server’ available 24/7. All you need to do is double-click the icon for the file and it will open for use.

    That 24/7 availability is made possible through a ‘server’. Server! Server?! It’s a machine. It has to stay on. Or perhaps needs to switch on, to speak in defence of the server, the machine.

    Suppose you keep the word file open for 3 hours. The machine stays on for 3 hours! Machine is the space, that holds your notes.

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  • Political?

    How have your political views changed over time?

    I have a Politician-view more than Political view.

    While all of us have some politics inside of us, I have come to believe that political folks are a species unto them. They scare me and make me curious all the same.

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  • Favorite favorite

    What is your all time favorite automobile?

    How many ‘automobiles’ do folks come to own by the time they come to write an answer to such a question?

    Or is this just a question based on visuals or knowledge of automobiles?

    Anyway, my favorite is a motorcycle called Benelli TNT 300.

    I couldn’t buy it back when it was available. And I suppose the current arrangements aren’t great either to catch hold of one.

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  • How am I creative?

    How are you creative?

    Almost every day, I search for interesting titles of books based on some words or subjects that strike me in certain moments. I end up sampling and reading some of these books.

    Such readings have ensured a spring in my step, an anticipation of finding some more interesting things to do.

    Have stayed away from bestseller lists.

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  • Influences?

    Who are the biggest influences in your life?

    Those who show up in my involuntary memories…

    Silly Dad

    Silly Crafts Teacher

    Silly Math Teacher

    Silly Social Studies Teacher

    Silly Ex Girlfriend

    Clever Cricket Teammates

    Silly Myself

    That’s poetic, I say.

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  • Sounds of Words

    These 3 words this morning…

    Exertions

    Exquisite

    Extricate

    First word, a noun, sounds good only in plural.

    Second one, an adjective.

    Third one, a verb.

    I did not deliberate before recording them.

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  • Nothing Convinces

    Nothing convinces.

    It’s evening. Why do I even expect anything from evenings?!

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  • Sachets of Time

    That’s what social media has an endless supply of.

    SACHETS OF TIME

    We spend our time consuming these endless sachets of time.

    And while consuming these sachets of time we realize, sachets of time consume us.

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  • Favorite…

    Daily writing prompt
    What are your favorite physical activities or exercises?
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    Chin-ups and Sprints.

    Typing such WordPress posts aren’t physical exercises?

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