There are often many ways of modeling the same thing. Models are inherently inaccurate, but the best are those which combine an acceptable degree of inaccuracy with a significant reduction in complexity. It’s obvious that the theorized output of a system depends on the model used to represent the system, but it’s nonetheless an important…
Following is among the most offensive things I’ve written here. First, some background. Remember in one of the Harry Potter flicks, where Harry is battling Voldemort from a distance? Their respective magic powers are conveniently manifested as sorcerous energy light beams of different color. The beams meet somewhere in the middle, the forces of good…
Sometimes, upper management is not well enough aware of their employees’ backgrounds that they’ll delegate a task ill-suited to the worker’s experience. In such cases, it’s easier for the employee to accept the new job responsibility than to respectfully refuse it on the basis of being under-qualified. Reasons for the ease of acceptance/difficulty of refusal:…
When the automatic sliding doors at the downtown transit center open or close it sounds just like a barista turning the steam on full wide to heat up milk. That an actual espresso joint exists near one of the entrances is an example of a society-provided source of free amusement. It’s deliciously awkward when a…
Time passes faster in the mornings than it does in the afternoons. An 8 hour shift beginning at 6 is brought to its end more quickly than one beginning at 9. Reasons for why this is the case are too numerous for me to completely list here, and come from a wide array of specializations…
The characteristics of a person’s body, the fairness of the face they wear, the sound of their voice; while some variance is possible through diet, surgery, and smoking, these physical attributes are largely outside the realm of modification, and they at least partially inform the personality of the person to whom they belong. People run…
On occasion, our eyes will show us things that capture the whole of our attention and render us immobile, fixated. It is possibly an instinctual response to seeing things that we have never seen before and that cannot be classified as belonging to a group of things with which we are already familiar. This latter…
I’m reading Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by neurologist Oliver Sacks. I found it at the library on a shelf of new releases. The new release designation means little more to the library’s information system circuitry than that the time between check out and due date is shorter. It needs to be returned…
Drifting on waves towards a solid shore of wakefulness in the early evening, after having let the sleep currents pull me out into the vast open a couple hours prior (read: a nap). Sometimes it is possible to postpone the inevitable waking, just by adjusting oneself into a new arrangement and subsequently sighing for the…
One of the most lasting ways to rekindle enthusiasm for your work is to look round and take notice of all the jobs you would hate to have. How empowering to shift the tiresome paradigm of waking up dreading another day’s contribution to livelihood into the consideration of one’s work as collateral. Watch someone working…
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