morning boy's letters on serious matters and commentary on funny things aplenty
Does the voice of the vlogger keep us from getting bored with the face?
Or is it the face itself that keeps us from getting bored?
Or is it the content emerging out from the face, shaped by the voice that keeps us from getting bored?
Or does one feel like being face to face with the vlogger, like in a classroom listening to the ramblings of a funny teacher?
Vlogging is a big deal.
Machines create books.
Machines create websites.
Machines create machines.
Your website can feel like a book or it can feel like a machine. There are easy machines, funny machines, tough machines et al.
To me, ‘website’ feels like a bad name for an information product. But it has been here for so long. Am sure makers of websites, typically, do not even understand the meaning of the expression ‘site’, off-site and on-site notwithstanding.
It has been difficult to find things that are ‘absorbing’.
Finding things that are absorbing, absorbs me. That kind of situation.
Imagine! Website owners and makers do not want to adopt a simple book-like TABLE OF CONTENTS for their website.
For many machines, you get instruction manuals with such elaborate TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Are websites meant to confuse? To slow the visitor down?
Wall is a strange surface, especially the one that is painted flat with any silly color of paint.
And then the surface of a wall becomes a perennial reminder, a perennial invitation to fill it with something that is not wall.
After you fill it up, it is never satisfying. Have a beer, two, three or more, so that the wall doesn’t disturb you.
What could you do more of?
Recall, yesterday’s conversations and elements that populated my time, in greater detail, and find kinks in intentions of all whom met.
Hello Facebook Machine! I am trying to figure you out. I hope am able to connect the identities with the working without more fuss. Thank you.
I think I do. Many grudges. And then I think I don’t.
‘Holding a grudge’, phrasing this way feels like it is a deliberate conscious act/action/activity. And because of such phrasing, we may also end up thinking we can ‘unhold’ a grudge.
There are ways of looking at a ‘grudge’, even treating it. But just because there exists some ‘grudge’ doesn’t mean we are ‘holding’ it. :)
What brings a tear of joy to your eye?
Am watching this Pakistani drama series Kabli Pulao. The character Barbina, she brings a tear of joy to my eyes.
Well, ever since I’ve gotten into what one might call ‘work life’, I’ve wanted to ‘plan’ my work and have gotten bored every time I have tried adopting some method to do some sort of planning.
Lists? Absolutely boring but I do it when the necessity arises and I sense there’s no other way to get a grip on things.
I’ve found a way to list, my own way. Kind of similar to Mindmaps but different at the same time; mine is faster and less gorgeous.
The title says it. For any task, write down the names of connected/associated units. What does that mean? Sounds like rocket science. Oh no, it doesn’t.
The principle is, once you remember the first word for the task, note it down. And then note down all the people, things, moves associated with that task. You are done with planning.
I chanced upon the expression ‘source of words’ and then in the process of writing a post with that title, I chanced upon the expression ‘container of words’.
Very exciting for me in the context of learning of second (or non-native) languages.
Some good Youtubers talk so much. So much.
All the points written somewhere out of the view of the camera. Even then, one would have to bank so much on one’s memory.
Editing skills help. But you have stitch so much talk even with editing.
Are marketers online making so much content that they forget the message in the process of making content? Is it that there are marketers who do not think of the message at all?
Of course, some marketers are doing it just right. A good weaving of content + message. Content backing up the message.
But what’s a message? Well, think about it. And then create your content.
Message, first.
Content, second.
That title shouldn’t be confused with some popular meanings.
For those who are good at language, histories or etymological accounts of words would count as sources of words. In this sense, sources of words feel like origins of words.
For those who are looking to improve their language skills, especially in the context of a non-native language, they wouldn’t even be aware of words. They need to come across words. Consciously knowing the sources of words, so that they could come across words, would help. Sources of words for such folks would just be where the words are available in abundance, where words can drown them, where they have to wade through words and words, plenty of them.
Sources of words are not origins.
Sources of words are huge collections of words. One would point to the dictionary. Sure. And there are non-textbooks. Sources of words are containers of words. Any word can pop-open a container of words.
the internet?
Video-filled internet and Non-Video internet.
Audio-filled internet and Non-audio internet.
This cleaving will be done for peace of mind.
A big part of practice is trying to repeat and through the process of repeating, gain fluency in what is being repeated.
The leap from fluency in repetition to ‘creation of new’, how does that happen?
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