Allwyn Fernandes

We may often make one choice with our rational mind but end up practicing another. Sometimes these two things are exactly opposite. How could this be ? Which one is the correct one? Well, yes and yes. If someone is to ask you what kind of men are you into? you instant answer is - I'm really like intelligent men who are judicious with their spending but when in a social setting you are almost immediately attracted to the most well dressed man. How could this be? Well because there is a disconnec...

I find it interesting why people who do graffiti do it. They risk their lives, the art work bears no exclusive names. If you ask them its all about getting a high when they know that stuff they have put out there is being viewed by others. That it travels and has a life of its own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaKV2pgCF14 ...

To me the test of how useful or uselessness of a particular thing is completely dependent on how and how much its end users interact with it. To me it does not matter how long you have toiled in writing the code or the choice of color pallets or whatever. Does the end user use it? end of story. They should either love it or hate it but never ignore it. If they love it and use it.. Don't repair it if it ain't broke. If they hate it but still use it,I see it as scope for improvement. But God forb...

The value of a particular stock is nothing but the perception of the value of the stock that the majority of the masses have. Okay, that was a mouthful. Ref the tulip crises of Ireland Or investing in art and painting. Ancient paintings hold value and auction for such a high price simply because the common perception is that they are valuable. No one thinks the same of the paintings my niece made last summer. The example of this idea being implemented and coming crashing down is a Ponzi scheme g...

The Pareto Principle suggests that in some cases, the majority of results come from a minority of inputs. I am yet to see a significant real life application of this law in my personal life. I'll probably update this entry when I do. ...

People do not get tricked because they are dumb, they get tricked because they desperately want the hoax to be true. They, in a way, want to be lied to. The need the lie to be true. R: book blink gladwell ...

I see a desperate lack of automation in the small and large and mid size companies. Case in point, My own employer, a mid sized, 50 year old pharma player has people employed who pick up hefty packages for rule based routine work. I do not blame the management. How could they know better. But moving forward I do see a stark change in the structure of the workforce. Irrespective of the core business of the company. I see each companies employing a 'Chief Automation Officer' either on payroll or a...

It has come to my notice that hype too is governed by a law - This law suggests that there is typically a burst of excitement around new technology and its potential impact. Teams often jump into these technologies quickly, and sometimes find themselves disappointed with the results. This might be because the technology is not yet mature enough, or real-world applications are not yet fully realized. After a certain amount of time, the capabilities of the technology increase and practical opport...

I'd often wonder why certain heads of departments would crib to me about how a certain manager, vendor or employee had not delivered on a promise or had out right not preformed their task. This had directly blocked them from undertaking their own tasks. Taking action was out of their locus of control. "Why not simply let the VP know that X had not done their job?" I'd think to myself. "Why don't they just go and tell the MD that X was not performing and get them to add pressure." I now realize ...

the reason why in school one could potentially score 100/100 in math but only 80/100 in history, languages or 'moral studies' is because unlike religion, language or human interactions, math has only one right answer. An answer will either be right or wrong, true or false, 1 or 0. All my student life I thought it was a huge conspiracy that worked in the favor of smart people, I wish someone stepped in and told me this back then. I would probably have worked harder and even focused more on a give...

"Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they cant afford time to think. Tuition fee increases are a 'disciplinary technique' and by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalized the "disciplinarian culture. This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy" Noam Chomsky This. This is so true for almost everything I have to s...

Everyone white face You have no messages I'm happy to hear you are doing fine So depressing but so hilarious but so depressing How not to tell a story of course The general explaining his plight People looking straight at me with slaves burning inside Made me fear old age more than death And a life without purpose or reason ...

“We can kind of read the animal’s mind in a way, we can predict what the animal is going to do before he does it,” Churchland said. “When you’re a novice at something your brain is doing all different things, so you have neurons engaged in all different things. But then when you’re an expert, you hone in on exactly what you’re going to do and we can pick up that activity.” R: https://www.cshl.edu/the-difference-between-an-experts-brain-and-a-novices/ ...

For the longest time I've thought of taking supplements as being unnatural and inhuman even but my thought is changing. I've know for long but only recently paid attention to the fact of chickens being injected with hormones, vitamins and yes supplements. For decades I've had no qualms about consuming this form of food. Kind of hypocritic it is of me, now that I think of it that the food of my food is indeed full of supplements, and I am against supplements. Now that I think of it, food itself ...

Reed's Law Reed's Law on Wikipedia The utility of large networks, particularly social networks, scales exponentially with the size of the network. This law is based on graph theory, where the utility scales as the number of possible sub-groups, which is faster than the number of participants or the number of possible pairwise connections. Odlyzko and others have argued that Reed's Law overstates the utility of the system by not accounting for the limits of human cognition on network effects; ...

Another cool piece of triva I recently came across that is more principle than trivia. I present to you Hutber's Law - This law suggests that improvements to a system will lead to deterioration in other parts, or it will hide other deterioration, leading overall to a degradation from the current state of the system. I see this law hold true in many aspects of my work life. It reminds me of this podcast that spoke of the Galileo principle (by Tim Harford) that speaks of how improvements meant ...

The old men would go hunting every first Friday of the month. This one summer Friday morning they decided to take Malcom along. They had this strategy they described to Malcom - when the hunt dog dumps a Rabbit, the rabbit runs a whole circle and sooner or later it returns to the exact same spot where it was jumped. Malcom, after understanding the strategy simply position himself such that the Rabbit could not get to that spot without passing him first. The old men could not stop singing his pr...

When your whole industry is sinking you really have only 3 options - Bond together with your rivals and get people to buy more of you products Pivot to next closest product in demand Fight for the scraps https://open.spotify.com/episode/3BDaZl5CsevUQN9owZuAyj?si=smZWVZLLR3Wo-ZDVDinSWA ...

The KISS principle is something cool I recently came across - The KISS principle states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated; therefore, simplicity should be a key goal in design, and unnecessary complexity should be avoided. Originating in the U.S. Navy in 1960, the phrase has been associated with aircraft engineer Kelly Johnson. ...

I hate the Google search front page whenever searching for help on say note taking you'll be introduced to the most useless content possible. This one article was literally an image along with an intro and a conclusion both of which was referencing some other study The image too was an infographic prepared by some other University. What exactly made them deserving of the top spot on the search result? I have no idea. (Do comment below if you do) The second link had a similar story to tell ex...

I love his these three play with each other, one more so with the other. Like colors at war. I do not want to miss one of the most crucial part of game however - architecture. Lines and curves that provide the three with a canvas. I also have an unusual proclivity to dim lights. Especially the yellow sodium street lights and the dense shadows they allow ...

As said by Saj on 191114 - "The goal of the MR is not to just generate prescription, it is to get into the mind of the doctors" I take it a step further in saying, The Moto of the MR is to generate prescription The Mission of the MR is to become a part of the minds of the doctors ...

I hate wasted potential, that shit crushes your soul. ./ Tyler the creator ...

In a family, what the eldest child does often sets the standard for each that follow. This is more so true with career and education. Seeing the eldest one talk about markets, finance and economics may get the younger ones curious about the matter. Thereby causing them to pursue similar fields if not the exact same industry. ...

Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships— relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person. There is some disagreement to the exact number. Dunbar proposed that humans can comfortably maintain only 150 stable relationships. He put the number into a more social context, the number of people you would not feel embarrassed about joining uninvited for a ...

Some notes on integers that I learnt today. Integers Integers are numbers you count with (hence fractions and roots cannot be integers) Even integer - divisible by 2 Odd integer - not divisible by 2 prime - divisible by 1 and itself (1, 3, 5). They have to be greater than 1. ./ #star 2 is the only even prime number 0 - is the only non negative, non positive integer ./ #star Non integer value cannot be determined as odd or even -- Factors are positive integers that make up a number evenly. (fi...

A person may be a great human being on Monday, Tuesday and Friday too but come Saturday you have no guarantee nor idea of what they can be upto. Hence never put anyone, even a god above God. Use your sanity and be you. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3043772/Model-goes-10-hour-horrifically-painful-procedure-change-60-belly-tattoo-featuring-Lost-Prophets-lyrics-paedophile-singer-Ian-Watkins-jailed.html ...

A management concept developed by Scott Adams (creator of the Dilbert comic strip), the Dilbert Principle is inspired by The Peter Principle. Under the Dilbert Principle, employees who were never competent are promoted to management in order to limit the damage they can do. Adams first explained the principle in a 1995 Wall Street Journal article, and expanded upon it in his 1996 business book, The Dilbert Principle. ./ see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle ...

Descriptive stats 2 Measures of spread (5 number summary) Here we are trying to figure how spread out the data is. Two given set data may have same mean but have different min and max. Histogram is useful for this 5 number summary => min , first quartile (median of data on left side of main median), second quartile (median) , third quartile (median of data on right side of main median), max Standard deviation - Measure spread of data set with a single value it tells us, on average h...

The Spotify Model based on Spotify Labs The Spotify Model is an approach to team and organization structure which has been popularized by 'Spotify'. In this model, teams are organized around features, rather than technologies. This allows for a more focused work force that is intuitively aware of what is right and how priority should be assigned. It also creates an environment where the 'residents' understand each other and the greater goal of the 'neighborhood'. The Spotify Model also popular...