SNR - Simply not right. What you ask? A bunch of things about our way of life. The time we spend chasing the next promotion so we can get to our next purchase. The time we spend obsessing over our child's grades. The time we lose squabbling over ideology and criticism (like the one here).
It is also called Signal-to-Noise Ratio. A fancy term to define true worth or value of all the data compared to the actual amount of data available. Also signal-to-noise ratio is sometimes used informally to refer to the ratio of useful information to false or irrelevant data in a conversation or exchange.
All this to highlight that we as a species have not really obtained more intellect over time since that is a function of the capacity of humankind to develop a part of its anatomy but rather have seen more irrelevant data being generated by a lot of sources that previously did not exist.
For starters there are more of us now and by the simple bell curve theory we generate more useless information from these individuals (like how I took a bath in my toilet to cooking with goat testicles to the latest Kardashian happenings) than what may be ultimately beneficial for mankind. Or to the unkind woman as well.
There are more devices and channels through which to get this nonsense out into the atmosphere and that has contributed vastly, even faster than global warming by farting cows and errant automobiles. The idea of global warming itself may be baloney, another new study suggests.
So while we spend our time to discover what is really true we are faced with more questions that were posed by more preachers and teachers and not enough to simply be..to reflect to laze or to slumber in that warm duvet.
A recent reading of a few tomes by one Mr. Hodgkinson and erstwhile author Jerome Klapka Jerome as well as some old insights from Pelham G. Wodehouse have also helped bring sanity back in my life..
Cool cat the Japanese are Tokyo at dusk My second visit to this land of the rising sun after almost a decade. Back then clearly I was wet behind the ears product manager and likely didn’t pay attention to all (efficient) things Japanese. But today I did and of course continue to be impressed. It is as much the obvious stuff like on time travel that is both clean and comfortable and all that which makes it possible. The impressive landmark and landscapes that these humans have put together despite their cramped (or because of it) surroundings and precarious geological conditions could amaze a novice architect among us. But it’s also the little things that someone had to think about which have a phenomenal impact on day to day lives that make the Japanese stand apart. Below are few random examples- 1. Providing a very fine machined wooden toothpick in every packet of wooden chopsticks. The said chapsticks are simply set on the To Go counter of any food vendor/ convenience store wher...
The insane still outnumber you by a few billions, but what the heck...
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