morning boy's letters on serious matters and commentary on funny things aplenty
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Beauty = Organization + Neatness in Organization
Elegance = Organization + Moving in and through Organization
Great Experience = Beauty + Elegance
Does that resonate?
Let’s just say that’s the surest way to learn a lot of things. Or most of the things. If you are not logomachiacal you are losing something.
This is some question.
If that person can’t see me but in a few moments can try, what I call, the leg-covers (okay, pants or bottoms in usual parlance) I’ve taken a few years to shape, that person would come to know something. Would that be description enough?
Many congratulations to the champ!
But tell me, do you take inspiration from movie songs? How believable is the headline?
Did the champ really say this? Really? What does such a headline convey to the young reader?
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