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Data Scientist
Data Scientists: Folks in charge of analyzing mountains of silly data.
Data Interpretation, an area of testing in MBA entrance exams.
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AC Servicing
AC = Air Conditioner
Servicing = ?
In India, it means removing the dust from filters in the AC. That’s it. No more. I swear, it involves no other thing.
Repairing? AC just don’t know. They have some measurement tools and this and that but all they can handle is gas-leakage. Beyond that they know nothing. Nothing.
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Data Poisoning
Air pollution
Water pollution
Noise pollution
How does Data Pollution sound?
Data Poisoning sounds crazy. But real.
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Why shoe shapes are not like foot shape?
Dear Shoe-lover,
Found this on Quora. Copy-pasting as it is.
Question: Why are (almost) all shoes at the end pointed and not shaped like a foot?
Answer: When shoemaking with soles began, pointed toes were easier to make than the other shapes. In earlier civilization, people walked and hiked more through vegetation areas, so pointed shoes helped to part the way. It’s also easier to put these shoes into stirrups when riding saddled horses. The point became the traditional look for most soled footwear made for the general population, mainly because of the cost and the type of work they did. The points have varied in length, some being so long they had a strand of leather attached to hold the points up by tying the strands to their belt. The shorter the point, the closer to the shape for the toe area. Today with all the toe box shapes available, the point still seems to be the preferred, which also comes in length factored choices.
That’s one account. Here’s another by a bot that Quora has deployed to offer ridiculous answers. But ridiculous has truths for you. Here you go:
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Tailors to In-store Readymades to Online Readymades
The sequence below is hypothetical but powerful in its simplicity to reveal the tragedy that is garment selling and shopping in India.
Sometimes even tailors got the fit wrong in spite of all the measurements. And most of the times, tailors didn’t have the fancy skills to match the desires, visions and fashions.
In-store readymades changed that. Plenty of variety, plenty to try in front of the mirror and variety of looks to pick from. The errors in ‘tailoring’ and ‘making’ got obscured by the sheer number available to try and fit into. Even if one unit didn’t fit, you could try another unit of the same design and it would fit.
When they started with online readymades, they kept the errors in ‘tailoring’ and ‘making’, removed the facility of ‘trying’ any number of things to get into a good fit, and instead started tom-tomming variety of lacs and crores of units.
Selling fashion online is tragic for a lot of people, sellers and buyers both. But then tragedies consume time and the time spent in contributing to tragedies eventually flips them into happiness. Starting up over and over is happiness too.
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Strange Beast
Start your business, turn it into an organization over many years, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, 30 years. Insane! Feels like a strange beast, this thing called ‘organization’ that a business gets transformed into.
The struggle is real, as I understand myself and my awkwardness in more detail. Who will guide me?!
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Big Software
How big a part does big software take from an employee’s working time every day?
Is there a way to compare such times?
My hypothesis is that an organization that demands a lot of such time every day is already less effective or will be less effective very soon.
As good as the argument above sounds, it still feels vague but important nonetheless. Still a few terms to be defined and observed.
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Daikin The Air Specialist
I spotted this in today’s newspaper.
The Air Specialist?
In matters of air-conditioners, this was the most shocking realizations for me: the split-conditioner in my studio doesn’t let the outside-air in or inside-air out.
Means one keeps breathing the same air until windows and doors are opened and there is sufficient wind to circulate the air, and bring the air from outside to mix with the air inside.
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What has happened to Differentiation?
Dear Al,
I could address you as Dear Al Ries or Dear Mr. Ries, but I feel closer to you than that.
Dear Al, what would you say about differentiation in today’s world of start-ups? I wonder.
Start-ups get plenty of money. They bomb the media with their money. They have messages but nothing sounds memorable, forget sensible.
Sustainability is in fashion. But the start-up has to be sustainably different too.
Start-ups don’t seem to understand categories either.
Do I have to read your books once again? Do start-ups have to?
Do I need more money to understand the start-ups marketing strategy? Is it money that I am not able to understand?
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Akshay Organizers Pvt Ltd & Cheating Buyers
Sharing here a letter I wrote to the members of my office complex.
It’s called Primate Complex and it is built by Akshay Organizers Pvt Ltd. The directors are Babubhai Sheladia and Tushar Sheladia.
If you are a property buyer in Ahmedabad, especially in the west or north-west areas, definitely check the names of property developers. Do a thorough study of their earlier projects and then commit to buy.
There are many points that you may want to check apart from the properties and silly features shown to you.
Apart from what you could sense from the letter above, there are many other serious matters too in my office complex. I do not know how much time it will take to sort these out, but it’s surprising for me to discover that other members don’t bother about how they’ve been cheated by the builder. They look happy to me.
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Is injustice relative?
The builder has cheated the buyers. I am also one of the buyers. I understand what kind of cheating has happened and is still happening. I am making efforts to figure a way.
Advice given to me:
Compare injustice to you with injustice to others; find your happiness out of injustice that hasn’t happened to you.
Wow! Unbelievable Indians!
Let’s substitute the word ‘injustice’ with ‘cheat’.
Compare cheating done with you, with cheating done with others; find your happiness out of cheating that hasn’t happened with you.
That triggers questions:
What kind of cheating are you good with? What kind of cheating you aren’t good with? Based on what do you decide that you ought to accept being cheated and enjoy all the same?
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Internet is governmental
Ecommerce is demanding.
The amount of information that has to be submitted to make all the little things work on Facebook or Google or other platforms that promise great business, absolutely mind-numbing.
The fact, that so much information has to be dealt with and submitted, makes these information-based companies so governmental.
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Both Indiamart and Justdial have pathetic backends. Just pathetic!
But seems like they win coz of their agreements with Google. They typically rank high in search results even if the quality of results is not great so often.
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India’s Premium Shoe Market
Dear Shoe-lover,
I can even address you as Premium Shoe-lover; am sure you’ve spent a bomb on your shoes.
Now I have something for you, in case you feel like putting your mind to it. Or your silly shoe to it.
Your disagreement with my understanding is unimportant to me. But if you’ve read and tried to understand, you are important to me.
And if you’ve commented, God bless you with amazing shoes and compliments from everyone who notices your shoes. Paisa vasool, you see!
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Observing feet in shoes
Dear Shoe-lover,
This will require some visualization, especially if you don’t use elevators daily.
Waiting for the elevator and then, standing inside the elevator, eyes mostly staring at the floor, I get to see the shoes of fellow elevator-riders.
Most bulging at the sides of the feet, as if trying to push the uppers out.
My hypothesis feels validated: shoe-makers in India sell ill-fitting shoes to Indians.
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Space Compression
Virtual World
(Online) Gaming
Videogame
What are the opposite respectively for each of these expressions?
Physical World / Real World
(Offline) Gaming? Should be a Cricket Ground or Football Ground!
Non-video Game?
It gets weird as we think how easily some expressions slip out of our mouth and are understood just as easily.
One of the greatest losses in cities is this compression of space. No urban planner or politician has been able to do much about it. No community either, if one can find such a thing in any city.
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Hormonally-charged
Hormonally charged youngsters, making a hue and cry about sustainability, don’t understand things that reside in their neighborhood, have no power or even inclination to shape their neighborhood, and have no awareness of how things happen. What kind of education has informed them, or ruined them?!
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Smart Maintenance
Since smartness is the in-thing for the last few years or perhaps a decade now, I must write this reminder.
Things demand maintenance.
Things that move and sense, and are called ‘smart’, when they break down may reveal our dumbness.
How is that? Coz the opposite of smart is dummmmmmb, simmmmmmple!
Invention of smart maintenance of smart things may change it perhaps. Let’s wait until that point, yeah?
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