Showing posts with label monday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label monday. Show all posts

Monday, August 21, 2017

Life and impracticality


This article engendered this post.
"Should school be impractical? - the practical benefits of being impractical"

The article is an overlap of wisdom from multiple sources (of my knowledge) and domains.
Humans suck at predicting the functionality of information. We get stuck in mental models that either assume the status quo or fail to grasp the continuity of the present tense. In other words, we assume the future will be way different than it actually becomes or we fail to recognize just how different it will be. We live within the confines of the adjacent possible and we can’t predict what innovation will look like in upcoming decades as the adjacent possible expands.

Of course, school learning is what's being talked about, but isn't that how we learn in life, too? Isn't this what the concept of George Monbiot's "Rewilding" is all about?

#1: Embrace confusion and complexity
#2: Go outside.. even if it feels impractical
#3: Tinker more
#4: Scracth your itch

Of course, it could only be a self-serving bias under the influence of which I'm totally endorsing this article. Being confounded, doing impractical things, then finding their application much later, is how I've experienced life. Proceed with caution.
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Monday, May 30, 2016

Raving about Mondays

I was born on a Monday. 30 years have passed, since that Monday, without ever wondering - that what was the day our calendars started on. It turns out, that 'twas a Monday, too. [January 1st 1 AD (Gregorian Calendar aka the modern calendar) - a Monday - was January 3rd 1 AD by the Julian Calendar - a Saturday starts the Julian]. Today, that I muse and resolve, is a Monday as well. Doshanbe pride!

Year Zero i.e. what preceded the first day of the first year, is a debatable subject, as both the Julian and the Gregorian Calendar, both enter 1BC when we roll back into the day before Jan 1 of 1AD. A way to consider it will be
1BC - (singularity of the divine birth) - 1AD
instead of
1BC - 0BC - 1AD
Because they incorporate a 0BC, astronomers (like Cassini) have been at odds at their chronology of events.

Funny thing: Gregorian Calendar was adopted in 1582, hence resolving the older ambiguities in a theoretical manner. The theoretical resolution resulted in 10 days being dropped - October 4, 1852 was followed by October 15, 1852.
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Monday, February 08, 2016


dear doshanbe.. what curse are you closely obeying? why does all breakfast turn charred? why does the inanimate still get to win? and, what's next?




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Monday, October 26, 2015

I Heart Start Mondays

Morning are really nights rolling out positively. So it happened that some last minute positivity showed me the way out the door, into a run. The early hours had a new feel-tone to it, in the way of the cold breeze. AFAIC, this is the same weather disturbance that brought the snows to Gulmarg and Kullu. That in itself could've been the A+ positivity to pull me out, had I realized it earlier. It took something else to do that.

The stroll to the park was a blur of ideas, which came about by the dissonating sound of chimes sounding on somebody's verandah in the neighborhood. The route of my exit now has a Gular tree (Ficus Racemosa, a very versatile organism that supports a lotta others during fruition), and these chimes, to distract from the banality of domestic existence - the dirty kitchen sink and the beer patch on my room floor. At one point of time I started counting the number of identifiable living crossing my way, and gave up after calling it "too much". I did not anticipate that the Delhi of 0630AM of October 26, 2015 would have so many identifiable living things ambling or rumbling about with intent.

As for this living thing, it kept well on its intent to do a harsh abusive run. 3 days of break, and weekend excess, neither could deter much. 6x laps, dedicated as following: One for the Caturday, One for the Sunday, One for the habits, One for a running lifestyle, One for the hills, One for the Penguins.
There were about 35 fellow living things in the park, doing their own thing. There was an interesting couple with kid who egged the kid to punch and do body exercises, and later played frisbee; it wanted to watch them more but they had left by the time it finished its run. There was also a Daschund in a green vest - looking like a flourescent sausage, and its owner in a green vest, followed by an old woman complaining about the dog's poop having ruined her shoe.

It was also a rare time for me being out sans a phone or headphones. This time it ended being more enjoyable, since I was committed to the run and the concept of fitness more than the concept of being out and witnessing the world, which I maybe ended up doing more anyways. Takes an eye and a free mind to do that.
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Monday, August 31, 2015

Ghosts you cannot see

Familiar smells wafting in from the kitchen bring some comfort. Distress, that which felt less comfortable, comes from the day-gone-by, which should've been iconic for reasons of severance, but wasn't for the reasons of my indolence. It surprises me how complacent I've become about some more focal points of life, my professional discipline being one. Right now I'm that unprofessional that managers fear - lying, procrastinating, evasive, and in my own calm (and own thought space) about it.
There are not but ghosts behind this endless canopy
and they all hold small comfort for deserters such as we.
You have failed us in memories, your recollections all are lies.
You've been such a disappointment from the moment that we died.
And we will descend from the sky.
And we will bury you alive.
I can imagine this one guy doing a Stroszek-inspired gig.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Jack is not a dull boy

I have not yet started with work since the resolve of yesterday (29 hours ago, to be precise). GBPM (गयी भैंस पानी में), or SHTF (शिट हिट्स दी फ़ैन) situation incoming.

However, I did lyric-synch myself to Daft Punk's Harder Better Faster Stronger. The day had a long phase of DP - thanks to discovery of Daft Hands and Daft Bodies, memes which bloomed and withered without my knowledge, back in my early-employment days. I didn't know DP came onto the scene in such sweeping fashion. I always saw DP as the most genius and esoteric of musicians, but they got better and popular quickly. The world is moving to better music, it seems. Or at least the geeks rise, if this is a movement through the online sub-communities.

Lyrics

Work it
Make it
Do it
Makes us
Harder
Better
Faster
Stronger
More than
Hour
Our
Never [1:10]
Ever
After
Work is
Over [1:19]
Work it
Make it
Do it
Makes us [1:27]
Harder
Better
Faster
Stronger[1:35]
Work it
Harder
Make it
Better
Do it
Faster
Makes us
Stronger [1:43]
More than
Ever
Hour
After
Our
Work is
Never
Over [1:50]
Work it
Harder
Make it
Better
Do it
Faster
Makes us
Stronger
More than
Ever
Hour
After
Our
Work is
Never
Over [1:56]
Work it
Harder
Make it
Better
Do it
Faster
Makes us
Stronger
More than
Ever
Hour
After
Our
Work Is
Never
Over [2:09]
Work it
Harder
Make it
Better
Do it
Faster
Makes us
Stronger
More than
Ever
Hour
After
Our
Work is
Never
Over [2:16]
Work it
Harder
Make it
Better
Do it
Faster
Makes us
Stronger
More than
Ever
Hour
After
Our
Work is
Never
Over [2:25]
Work It
Harder
Make it
Better
Do it
Faster
Makes us
[2:28]
More than
Ever
Hour
After
Our
Work is
Never
Over [2:34]
Work it
Harder
Make it
Better
Do it
Faster
Makes us
Stronger
More than
Ever
Hour
After
Our
Work is
Never
Over [2:40]
Work it
Harder
Make it
[2:50]
Do it
Faster
Makes us
[2:52]
More than
Ever
Hour

Our work
Is
Never
Over [2:56]
Work it
Harder
Make it
Better
Do it
Faster
Makes us
Stronger [3:00]
More than
Ever
Hour
After
Our
Work is
Never
Over [3:04]
Work it
Harder
Make it
Better
Do it
Faster
Makes us
Stronger
More than
Ever
Hour
After
Our
Work is
Never
Over [3:12]
Work it
Harder
Make it
Better
Do it
Faster
Makes us
Stronger
More than
Ever
Hour
After
Our
Work is
Never
Over [3:18]
~Work it
~Harder
~Make it
~Better
~Do it
~Faster
~Makes us
~Stronger [3:23]
~More than
~Ever
~Hour
~After
~Our
~Work is
~Never
~Over [3:26]
Work it
Harder
Do it
Faster
More than
Ever
Our work
Is
Never
Over [3:34]
Work it
Harder
Make it
Better
Do it
Faster
Makes us
Stronger [3:38]
More than
Ever
Hour
After
Our
Work is
Never
Over [3:42]


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