Return of the Monk

Ok,

Its now 4 months since the last post, 4 months since I joined my new job, 4 months since I had a drink, 4 months since I slept in the afternoon.... 4 months that feel like a full year. Things seem finally in some sort of control - not that its become better, but there is a better sense of control. Rather, if one sees the original structure and setup like a shapeless looped string undergoing a change in shape with any sort of pressure on it, the current structure is embellished with more nodes. The purpose of nodes is to provide a static reference point as pressure is applied on the string, and at the same time, shield the pressure from distorting the overall string architecture.

A useful and easy way to imagine this is to take a rubber band and stretch it across three pins on a board. Vibrations caused by pinching the rubber band would be spread over L/3 in a strong manner, and 2L/3 in a weak manner, where L is the length of the rubber band. With the introduction of more pins along which the rubber band is now stretched, the impact of pinching keeps coming down ... for N pins, the impact is thus L/N. Now, as N-> infinity, the impact is near zero, which is a steady state situation of a perfect circle.

The point here is that there is another hidden variable, which is the interactions between the nodes. If the interaction between the nodes is positive to the overall situation, in my opinion, there spring up virtual nodes between these that work like a surface-tension mechanism to stretch the rubber band to its position of being a part of the arc of the perfect circle that would emanate. In order for this to happen, the idea or the view of the eventual circle that would emanate, in terms of its radius primarily, this idea needs to be consistent across the 2 nodes in question. This is usually referred to by management theorists as "vision alignment", but it is primarily a geometric alignment on the nature of the circle. In more complex geometries or organizational structures, the circle morphs to a sphere and we reach and understand the great Pythagorian obsession with spheres.

Thus, from here on, the blogging begins on Retail.

The Digital Monk who sold from his outlet...