morning boy's letters on serious matters and commentary on funny things aplenty
Depends on what you get as your bounty upon winning the lottery.
If it is monies, I would buy a huge piece of land, and some used equipment or machinery to make some things.
Lotteries don’t get you friends though. Or let’s say getting friends is like winning lottery too.
What makes a good leader?
Good friends.
Or, lack of good friends.
Both make a good leader.
The question feels incomplete. Like so many things, good leadership and good leaders emerge in contexts.
If you could un-invent something, what would it be?
FLATS.
What we call in our city as FLATS, somewhere else they may be typically called APARTMENTS. That’s what I would un-invent.
FLATS are the bane of Indian urbanization. In fact, I would un-invent the concept of Urban Planning in India.
Urban Planning, was is invented in the first place? Yes, it was an invention? No, it was evolution! Looks like.
Can you share a positive example of where you’ve felt loved?
Talk about framing a question.
Positive example of where you’ve felt loved?
Now read this:
Negative example of when you’ve felt loved?
Or read this:
Positive example of when you’ve felt unloved?
😉
A rectangular strip of time filled with some good serious light-hearted conversation is where I always feel loved. No doubt! And I have had plenty such.
Where can you reduce clutter in your life?
I did not know this.
21st November is No Music Day.
Thank you Bill Drummond.
We can do with much much less of background music and sounds and noises.
In what ways do you communicate online?
It feels I communicate with NOTHING online most often.
That’s a strange sounding statement. Just as the question sounds actually. Strange.
‘In what ways…’
Well, I twist and wrench my words very often to communicate online. That’s the primary way.
The way I don’t communicate online is by not liking selfies, by not expressing birthday greetings to strangers, by not writing RIP upon looking at a death update… By not using such ways of communicating, I must be adopting a way of communicating that discourages people to ‘like’ what I write.
Basically, I do not adopt reciprocation as a way of communicating online. Yes, I think that is it.
What snack would you eat right now?
Sorry, it’s Ockham’s Nominalism, along with a cup of Coffee.
I kind of get now, what they mean, whether they themselves get it or not, what they mean when they use Ockham’s Razor in their language.
Come up with a crazy business idea.
I don’t think I am crazy enough.
Crazy stuff was done by guys who built canals, dams, containers, ships and airplanes.
Whatever I think, someone or some team must be busy doing that already.
So here’s the thing: start a dating service, matches proposed algorithmically based on vedic astrology, especially for nutty youngsters, in the US.
What will you say to them if you start a thing like that?
What is your mission?
At different points, I have tried to name my mission. I named it well but differently every time.
At one point, ENSURING BEAUTIFUL FACES.
Then, ENSURING ELEGANCE IN MOVEMENTS.
And WRITING AS MEASUREMENT.
At another point, FUNCTIONAL FASHION.
And recently, CAPTURING IN COUPLETS.
These are not the same. And they all feel important to me. And pull me altogether it feels.
What is the greatest gift someone could give you?
Company while moving, sitting, working… Company.
Next greatest gift? Am divided between these two options: an intriguing book or a luscious kiss.
There’s always enough time to not have to resort ‘either or’. 3 ‘and’ gifts. Am I smart?
What colleges have you attended?
I wonder why anyone would be interested in knowing the colleges I attended.
I attended a college to do my Bachelors in Commerce. I didn’t even question why the degree is title Bachelors!
Then I attended a college for entrepreneurship. You can’t undergo a systematic study of entrepreneurship to become an entrepreneur. That causation is very suspect to me.
And the I attended another college to study Marketing Communication. They do not have a course to create couplets there. Would you believe it!
Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you?
Play and playtime?
Wrestling,
Wrenching,
Coaxing,
These words into good shape,
Shape such that they sound great.
What are your biggest challenges?
Look, at this moment, it is to capture my idea in a rhyming, meter-matched couplet. Been going on days now and I am not yet close to crafting that couplet.
What makes you feel nostalgic?
Motorcycling at certain times of the day, under certain kinds of lights, passing by certain spaces, and the scent, the scent, that scent held by the air around, sometimes carried by the breeze…
I just got the clutch-cable replaced and my motorcycle is sprightly again, as if my legs have resumed fast bowling… Sources of nostalgia are strange I tell you.
When are you most happy?
Finding a good book makes me most happy. But hold on, it isn’t that simple.
It is a sequence of decisions.
I decide to browse titles on certain topics.
Certain titles pique my interest, so I read the descriptions.
Then I sample the book with the most interesting description by reading the first few pages.
I really look forward to the first few pages, usually called preface or introduction. Those first few pages, if they rivet me, I know picking the book up was a great decision. And that really makes me happy.
Nothing like making a great decision.
Mornings and nightly mornings way before dawn…
It’s always this thing in my case. And it is not the last thing because it is a repetitive thing, almost every morning. So, I repeat the last thing I might say.
Browsing titles of books triggered by certain words. Sampling. And reading. In between, writing here.
Is your life today what you pictured a year ago?
I don’t picture, but I do not think if I had pictured one year back I would have pictured this.
But you see pictures can intersect. So writing the way I am doing, I would surely have pictured if I had pictured.
Skills or Lessons? Skills and Lessons?
I’ve been trying to develop my skills of digging, burrowing and sliding into the rabbit hole of newsletters. I have taken some steps. Lesson is, the variety in software is no less than variety in fashion-wear.
Also I’ve been trying to develop the skill of staying away from scrolling on my mobile phone, especially the Youtube feed. Made some headway there.
There’s more but tell you what, at this moment, writing the journey of my skill-development is quite boring. Walking the path is not so boring.
What cities do you want to visit?
I want to visit every such city that houses my friends who want to walk me through their cities and talk me through some long peculiarities…
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