morning boy's letters on serious matters and commentary on funny things aplenty
That’s a misleading question.
I meant to ask “How many read these thoughts I am posting”?
In the last couple of days since I’ve started sharing the links to these posts as Whatsapp Statuses, I see that at least 300-400 folks see each of these statuses on their screens. How many actually read? 3, 5, 10!
No it isn’t anyone’s fault, but such is the system that has gotten created and such is the density of inanity that needs to be penetrated. And such are the processes of lifestyles.
More Indian youngsters are made to read and learn from what we call as Textbooks than those made to read and learn from any other book.
It would be amazing to chart out the history of the development of these textbooks, in English or any other language.
What do you think?
I am interested in the history of these textbooks because of how pathetic they are. That’s right.
Am at a car service station. For more than 3 years we’ve had the same complaints at every occasion of service. Never addressed properly.
Now since I am here, the guys are trying to fix it and fixing it quite easily in my observation.
In my internal talk I’ve maintained that I have a hard time revisiting anything.
Revisiting is a big part of practice, of preparing.
And yet, the truth is, I do revisit. But it is the revisiting of unpleasantness so often. No revisiting for practice or preparing.
Strange. I’m revisiting WordPress dashboard so often to see what I can do with this machine. I can call some of it as practice surely. Okay, good consolation for this post.
After quite a long time, I ran for >45 mins in the morning. When I started, in the first 500 metres of running, I felt a couple of niggles in the legs. I tried changing my running style a bit, and the niggles subsided, and I carried on. I couldn’t achieve a good speed but it was a pleasure just to be able to carry on for so long outdoors.
I feel good again. I am a morning boy.
I have to postpone every single thing till I have a good fill of Niklas Luhmann’s thoughts…
Words are trailing reality and so the mind hasn’t yet caught up with reality.
Hello Mr Luhmann, thank you very much for writing so much.
It would help to make ourselves as reading systems. Let me add an adjective and rephrase: amazing reading systems.
Google and plenty of computing is first and foremost a reading system.
One can have quite a few descriptions of such machines, and the quality of writing that they read, but would you deny them being incredible reading systems?
Brands never needed so much writing in public as they do now. Or let’s say, fewer brands, normally big ones, did as much writing as we witness now.
We shouldn’t even discuss the quality of so much writing.
PR-based pegs in the newspapers every once in a while was all that there was to writing.
Word crawlers are crawling,
Where are my words?
Someone, please, write my words
Write my words,
The crawlers should find my words to crawl.
“With so much of softwaring over the years have we become productive? We have surely become more consumptive.”
Right now, the default position is indoors, i.e. sitting at my desk. To do anything away from the desk, I’ve to get up on my feet and move.
Suppose I adopt my default position as standing/sitting outdoors, and I move from there to do whatever I need to. So, if it is a desk-oriented task, I step into my studio, finish it and go back to my default position outdoors.
Sounds tough. Can’t bear this way of sitting either.
Sitting while reading is tolerable. Sitting while waiting for other things or clicking, tapping stuff on/for the screen is just so frustrating.
Turning the cover page,
Opening the book,
Reading till you forget to stop,
Reading till you get tired or sleepy or bored,
Reading such that you are breathless with ideas,
Reading such that you just can’t finish reading the entire book;
That’s alright,
That’s what a book is meant to do.
Wow! If missing details is also a skill, I am quite skilled in certain ways.
Never noticed that there is a post-type that WordPress offers that’s called Chat. Intriguing.
As I am typing this, I find really no difference. But I sense it would show a bit differently to the viewer once published. Let’s see.
Am commenting to see how this post-type works. Is it any different from a regular post?
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There’s a difference between marketing efforts that serve as reminders, and marketing efforts that serve to improve your coverage.
Word-of-mouth spreads when spreads. Often quite slowly, rarely swiftly.
Don’t let reminders leading to repeat business push you into comfort zone.
Nice one!.
This is what I see in your post
Replace athose negative reviews with positive comments.
Make sure to connect with the people who write the reviews to get their feedback.
Ely Shemer
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As a small-time businessman/entrepreneur for so many years now, I can tell you this: variety isn’t the solution.
Folks will continue to set up businesses in the domain of fashion, and just get consumed by the variety, irrespective of the result. That sort of ‘getting consumed’ isn’t a great thing.
Solutions?
Finding pleasure in organizing variety, for only then you will organize it well.
Or build around a very restricted number.
But fashion is all about variety no? Yes it is mostly. Not always though. The challenge is to think what it is that will count as ‘fashion’ and yet not burden you with variety.
It feels to me Substack demands some ‘size’ of writing.
I’ve had a hard time reading so much material, even though I am tempted to.
You read books or you read these Substack articles? Or you don’t read anything?
I’d rather spend time on building some hand-skills. Or improving my pull-ups and pull-up counts.
Connections – additional details
Coincidences – repetition
Curiosities – single events
Some expressions and relations extracted from Gary Klein’s book so far.
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