morning boy's letters on serious matters and commentary on funny things aplenty
At once celebrations were scarce. Now they are abundant.
And semi-celebrations are more abundant than celebrations.
Today’s semi-celebrations compete with celebrations of earlier times.
Celebrations today would compete with rare mega-celebrations of earlier times.
In fact, even mega celebrations are abundant these days.
Time has to be filled, it might as well be filled with celebrations Indians feel.
Easy for software to turn into strange engines. Some examples: Google, Indiamart, Justdial.
Will add to the list soon.
The rules are pretty consistent: The easier it is to create and save a video or other file, the more likely it is to be lost or corrupted The more important the data is, the more likely it is you’ll notice when it gets lost The harder it is to replace, the more frustrating it […]
They will lose your data
For some time now, I’ve been having conversations with friends about data storage and the durability of storage media, considering how much content is getting created.
The other point I have been talking about is revisiting the content we ourselves create. I am a bad revisitor. How about you?
Do you think about the storage systems used for your content?
SaaS, how beautiful the word looks. No?
The full form is Software as a Service.
Didn’t I tell you in an earlier post that software is a machine? Remember?
Right, so then it should read Machine as a Service.
That sounds like the business of selling and servicing cars. No? Machine as a service! ‘Service’ earns more than the machines for the car companies. Recurring. Except that the upkeep of cars does require ‘service’.
Now I can debate that ‘software requires service’ is as true as ‘car requires service’.
Machine as a Service. Hmm… Assuming the idea conveyed by this expression is digestible, what’s the cost of such a service? Answers are unpleasant.
Non-fluid colleges take away so much of the time of our youngsters.
And then we don’t quite find them employable after college ‘education’.
They don’t find interest in most jobs they take up right after college.
There is no way for them to shape themselves any better since all their time is gone.
When bored or feel satiated with my current occupations, I look here and there for interesting ideas, projects or jobs.
Job listings often come with categorical descriptions but without any specific details of the brand; of course so that the recruitment consultants play their roles.
Upon reading those descriptions without the specificities, I get bored and get back to my current occupations which bored me in the first place.
Software attempting to be faceted and 3-dimensional and spending monies over years and years and yet found wanting…
Software failing to be idiosyncratic, in fact turning amazing idiosyncrasies into idiocies…
Businesses trying to softwarize almost everything in their attempt to capture data and pumping in attention and resources into the activity of softwarizing, in the process forgetting or compelled to ignore their reasons for existence.
Hypothesis: Software is a nightmare for many many businesses.
Wrote this in response to a Linkedin post on ‘how meetings should be conducted’. These are my words in the inverted commas; you can choose any variants of words for titles on this theme. Here’s my comment:
Decisions entail changes. If the number of meetings = number of changes, that in itself ensures that most meetings will be non-productive.
In the same breath, every decision, every change is an experiment; how meetings contribute to or hinder experiments is anyone’s guess.
In case you are curious about the post: https: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/parth-agnihotri-47259ba_management-leadership-manager-activity-7042673914296111104-utDv
Mississippi Earrings, so far, has been a business based on and driven by variety.
As if just the variety in designs of earrings wasn’t enough, there’s a variety of pictures to be clicked and handled for every design.
Now am grappling with a variety of Whatsapp marketing software, apart from a variety of things to be studied to conduct business online.
Just insane! Variety is wearing me down.
Upon a tap on the app icon what kind of scroll comes into being? What fills the mobile screen?
Laptop screens are harder to fill than mobile screens. The scrolling thumb is harder to stop on the mobile screen than it is on the laptop screen.
I wonder if computer was really meant for the reader in the first place. Of course, it wasn’t. Computing was the point. To the computer was added the internet. In fact, video games appeared much before most of the material meant for reading on computer screens.
Computer screens were squarish earlier. Desktops and laptops typically promoted landscape orientation. Though I am not sure if portrait orientation would’ve aided reading.
I haven’t tried reading on the tablet screen but generally it’s been hard reading on any kind of screen-mobile, laptop or desktop.
First textbooks screwed the reading experience, now they are the digital screens. It’s tough becoming a reader.
Even the Kindle app can’t turn a screen into a reading tool. I do see folks on Linkedin reading long essays though.
Before attempting pull-ups, tuition-attending youngster wants to know, What are the scientific benefits of pull-ups?
I ask the youngster: What are the scientific benefits of asking such a question?
Youngster finds me dumb.
I change the question: What are the scientific benefits of Google?
Youngster finds himself on good ground. Says: Google gives me scientific information on any topic.
I change the question: What are the scientific benefits of tuition classes?
Youngster is googling…
Searching for good books to read is an old pastime for me.
You nut, Oscar is not for books!
Hey Naatu Naatu, when ordering online wasn’t an option, I used to visit Crosswords at Mithakali Crossroads quite often.
The Bestsellers section attracted attention. Books carrying the words New York Times’ Bestseller attracted attention and lured me into buying. Booker Prize Winner, those words also lured me into buying some. Later, even ‘nominated for’ lured me into buying.
Aww, even as I write this I open the wikipedia page for Literary Award to check my GK of awards awarded across the world.
The horror lay in discovering that in following lists and awards I made weird choices.
Much much later, I could frame and tell myself that buying is experimentation, and what we buy are experiments.
Once treated this way, if a buy turns out to be a disappointment, I am able to coax myself rather easily into analyzing how I came to make such a buy.
One thing leads to another, now I ignore awards altogether. In fact, once a thing gets awarded, I tend to look the other way.
Award means avoid.
You nut, you are jealous. You are undermining Naatu Naatu’s success at the Oscars?! God will not forgive you! You anti-n…
Congratulations Mr/Ms Songmaker! Congratulations Ms/Mr Listener! Thank you Ms/Mr Reader!
Did I maintain gender equality?! You bet I did. One gender was awarded more equality than another. You see that?
My smirky Dad tells me last night, “The song got an Oscar and you say you are not impressed!”
I must get an Oscar for not getting impressed. Please introduce that category. The category of not impressed.
Please introduce an award for Tiktok dances too; I am trying to get into that. Please. You want suggestions for categories?
You were treated badly by teachers but others weren’t. Problem lies with you not with the teachers.
Why did these teachers spare the others but not you? Problem lies with you.
Admit it, you are the problem.
Others built careers. You didn’t. Problem is with you,
What’s the full form of MRP?
Your question is so dumb.
Never mind, the full form of MRP is Maximum Retail Price.
Huh! What’s the big deal?!
The deal is that MRP is the maximum that can be charged. And that the seller can charge less than maximum too. And that most sellers charge you the maximum.
So?
So, your foot!
Dear Advertiser,
Since products can’t be made to normally dance as yet, I sense DanceGPM will change all that fairly soon but not yet, how can millennials be impressed with so many products made for them?
But they are already buying a lot of them, no? Oh yeah, they are buying, even without the dances.
I just felt like if products are all presented in dances, it will be great content, and millennials would just not stop themselves from buying because of all the content.
Content is King and Queen and the cot on which they sleep.
Remember how Malaika danced in Chaini Chaini, chain se maza lo!
Just as in school kids are fed with silly textbook stuff, when shopping online, shoppers are fed with silly product descriptions.
Imagine lakhs of products in any category and each product described in some flowery way by some content writers.
Actually, content writers keep similar templates ready and just change a few words when products look similar but have slight variations.
So if a template had flowery words to begin with, content writers are compelled to replace flowery with flowery. And the cascade is unstoppable.
Amidst all of this, no content writer describing a pair of sweatpants writes, “These sweatpants will make your legs sweat.” By not writing such truths, they feel their product descriptions will do a better job of selling.
Just since no one knows, sweatpants make legs sweat.
Dear Shoe-lover,
Am I too harsh? What do you make of this?
Do you believe it? Monster-level cushioning? What’s that? You want your feet to be in the hands of a pedicurist all day long?
32mm cushioning. That’s more than an inch. Did God give you birth with torn heels and spiky floor? Even then you may not need it.
Monster has poky teeth. Monster is big. Monster cushioning would be big poky teethy cushioning? Yeah, right. Go ahead. Buy this shit.
There’s this energy drink too, Monster. Wear these shoes, have Monster energy drink and you’ll be monstrously comfortable. Or monstrously comfortably energetic. Sorry, you decide. What a monstrously bad post!
When was the last time you found flowers obnoxious?
Not flowers, but floweriness is expanding its range of obnoxiousness.
Plastic floweriness.
Floweriness in product descriptions on fashion ecommerce websites.
Floweriness in smiles that lips twist into for selfies.
Floweriness in special effects applied to photographs, especially selfies.
Roll G’s criticism, where flowers and floweriness both go missing… What a world!
Breathing is repetitive.
We are not conscious of the repetition that goes on while breathing, until we pay attention to it for some reason.
All other repetitions are too overbearing for me right now. As if I don’t have the energy to bathe once again, to open an excel sheet and make a statement of estimates for another new business once again.
This chewing wood I am chewing over and over again is still not so bad.
So breathing and chewing chewing wood. Let me go to sleep.
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