Thursday, June 5, 2014

How knowledge never decreases

Level of information is an ever expanding. With every new interaction, you learn a little more and till you encounter another one, you become already capable to relate the prior extraction of your knowledge with the ongoing interaction, before you enter into a completely different level of dealing.
For instance, let’s say you went to buy a pair of shoes. Oddly though, the store appeared to be a wholesaler. The keeper refuses to sell you your choice with his reason, before you explode with something like ‘oh really yeah! You won’t sell a pair. Why don’t you keep your ornaments at home?’ And storm out. But, at this point, your level of information climbs up a step and ensuring that you won't enter a wholesale store another time for buying another piece of good.

The next day, you meet a friend. Bragging about how appealing marks she's scored in yesterday's marketing research paper, she tells you that she needs not search any job as she will be overtaking the family wholesale chain as her dad believes in her ability to take it forth now.
A layhuman until yesterday, you would now ask ‘so you don’t sell in pieces. Do you?’
To what she replies ‘generally, yes. But with people within our personal contact, we don't usually say no until we are short of stock and so.
As you now know about an exception in wholesaling. You reach the second stair of information.

Next time, you will knock only a familiar wholesaler.
‘Hey Sam! I need a pair of shoes. They’re making those compulsory for the training- one with the studs- yes, just like these. Thanks, man. And you walk away with your shoes.

This is the way your knowledge doubles, quadruples and gets folded up to infinity. Once you know things, you become precise with communication and become understandable. You will reason with facts. you start questioning, searching and finding about things yourself.
Knowledge increases with experience and interest. No information is useless. One always benefits from listening to everything s/he hears.

P.S:Wholesaling here is just an example. The world of wholesaling is too wide and they do not always not sell retail quantities.

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Six intriguing book dedications




After finally getting determined a little about writing something longer than just few pages, I was searching for some ideas to start with. It's often told that writings are generally dedicated to darling, dearest and dead but I stopped to the fact that, non of those three has influenced me enough to write a book for.(parents being exception though ;) )
Anyway, I found these few intriguing book dedications. I am of course not copying these while writing mine because they are far beyond my imaginary plots but yes they are touching, humorous (one of them if not all) and worth sharing.
I am not sure if I'd ever want to go for number 3 for idea of marriage really freaks me out but I'm sure he'd got a yes ;) good writers out there can really try this and I suggest you to.

So, here are some that i liked the most: 

0) i will add mine here after I finish writing one. Mine is going to be even better you know ;) 
     

1) Joseph J. Rotman 
book: An Introduction To Algebraic Topology

'To my wife Marganit
and my children Ella Rose and Daniel Adam
without whom this book would have
been completed two years earlier.'


2) C.S. Lewis
book: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

TO LUCY BARFIELD

My dear Lucy,

I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be

your affectionate Godfather,

C. S. LEWIS


3) Peter Leeson
book: The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates’

Ania, I love you, will you marry me?


4) Sean Carroll
book: The Particle at the End of the Universe

To Mom,
Who took me to the library.


5) Edited by Edward E. Kramer:
book: Dark Destiny 

This book is dedicated to Robert Bloch, grand master of darkness. May the blood drawn from your typewriter’s keys sustain us always.


6) Neil Gaiman
book: Anansi Boys

You know how it is. You pick up a book, flip to the dedication, and find that, once again, the author has dedicated a book to someone else and not to you.

Not this time.

Because we haven’t yet met/have only a glancing acquaintance/are just crazy about each other/haven’t seen each other in much too long/are in some way related/will never meet, but will, I trust, despite that, always think fondly of each other….

This one’s for you.

With you know what, and you probably know why.

*picture is taken just for illustration.