Hey there!
I have a question for you. When do you think a business makes money? Your answer must be something along the lines of āwhen people use its product or serviceā. But what if I were to tell you that there exists a scenario in which the company makes money when you do NOT use the product or service you purchased. Interesting, right? So, with this -
One Thing I Learned
The perfect examples of businesses thriving on the breakage model are the gyms whose membership you bought and only rarely use. You, my friend, are the gymās best customer because this business doesn't want a lot of its customers to use the services.
One Tool I Recommend
About a month ago, I started learning French. I guess I can say The One Where Joey Speaks French has some role in this. French certainly sounds pretty exotic the way they portray on screen. Anyway, so a couple of weeks ago I came across this Chrome extension and I find it extremely cool. Itās called Fluent. It replaces certain phrases on the web pages you visit with the equivalent phrases in French, letting you practice French while you browse. Itās relatively new and they're planning on adding more languages. I feel itās a nice compliment to the websites you browse.
Hereās a screenshot of Fluent in action:
From a product standpoint, there are three features that I really like.
Color code - The nouns are color-coded. The peach-ish nouns are masculine and the purple-ish ones are feminine. Even if you are quickly browsing you can identify the gender of the noun with the color.
Pronunciation and Star - Like any good translation service, Fluent provides you with the feature of listening to the pronunciation of the word. Additionally, you can star the words you want to save.
Pause - You can pause Fluent from translating words if you think you have had too much.
One Question from the Readers
If you were to stand for an election what would be your winning strategy?
This is an interesting question. And since I am making hypothetical strategies, I would take the liberty of assuming that I am contesting for the highest office of the country.
In my personal opinion, I think academicians donāt always get the recognition they deserve. We have put the film personalities on pedestals, we follow politicians, even influencers on Tik Tok are āstarsā. And I am not saying they havenāt earned their place. But very few academicians have received the kind of reverence that is usually reserved for rockstars and actors. This is mainly because we are less aware of the achievements of scholars as there are very few items in the media about them. And also, thanks to pop culture, it apparently makes you a nerd. So, if I could, I would āmake academia cool againā.
On more pressing issues, I have always felt strongly about the conservation of the environment. So if given a chance I would really like to do something at a large scale that brings about a substantial change in improving the condition of the environment.
I am not sure if these are winning strategies and I certainly donāt have the specifics of implementation now. But I will obviously figure it out if there ever comes a point where I am contesting for the elections :P
This issueās Bonus Section - A Shot of the Sky
One of these days, I felt the sky looked exceptionally beautiful. I donāt think my camera could do justice in capturing the beauty but let me share the shot with you nonetheless.
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