{"id":1005,"date":"2023-10-02T09:10:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T05:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2023-10-02T09:10:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T05:10:34","slug":"miss-alien-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/02\/miss-alien-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss..alien..us !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Miss<\/strong>..<em>alien<\/em>..<strong>us<\/strong> !<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Grammar and spelling have taken a backseat in the above caption. Was it by design? Most certainly. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Miscellaneous<\/em><\/span> is the word I am referring to. That said, the <em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">culture<\/span><\/em> we operate in buckets <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>us<\/em><\/span> in a manner that is <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>alien<\/em><\/span>, which means we <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>miss<\/em><\/span> the bus, more often than not.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You enter a physical book store or on <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Amazon<\/span>, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>m<\/em><em>iscellaneous\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">is always the largest category. With the smallest following. The internet and its reach has created the rather wondrous &#8216; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>long tail effect<\/em><\/span> &#8216; which means there is an audience for almost anything and everything however small it might be.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The same web has made us lazy ( if there was a potential to be more so) &#8211; that irrespective of the order (or chaos), we will find it. That was not the way we were. Spoons went into a certain slot, so did shoes and socks, books and magazines, brooms and mops&#8230;everything had a clear slot and it was well sorted. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Finding<\/em><\/span> was a seamless default mode.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Taxonomy<\/em><\/span> (or classification of things) help us get to where we want to faster and better. Being in &#8216; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>search<\/em><\/span> &#8216; mode always takes away time, calls for more effort( and thereby brings in more of the accompanying inertia), derails momentum and flow and make us eschew the useful serendipity that comes with finding things where they need to be, where we expect them to be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you find yourself in &#8216; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>find mode<\/em><\/span> &#8216; most of the time, it&#8217;s time to <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>find<\/em><\/span> a way out. The big sort will help. Unless, you are happy, re-inventing the wheel, all the time. In the process, &#8216; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>miss<\/em><\/span><em>ing the wood for the trees<\/em>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Miss..alien..us ! &nbsp; Grammar and spelling have taken a backseat in the above caption. Was it by design? Most certainly. Miscellaneous is the word I am referring to. That said, the culture we operate in buckets us in a manner that is alien, which means we miss the bus, more often than not. &nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/02\/miss-alien-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Miss..alien..us !&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2052,2054,2051,1554,2055,2053],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-find","tag-grammar","tag-miscellaneous","tag-search","tag-spelling","tag-taxonomy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}