Shahediyen's Society

12/06/2024

So I thought.... maybe, it's time to write again.

Dunno about what, or if I'll stop again. Just want to figure out how rusty and scattered my thoughts can be with the keyboard.

24/10/2021

Decided to have a little fun with this one. Adding pop culture references to explain the value of limited Niches.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/red-mage-how-niche-risat-bin-rashid

I enjoy playing video games, commonly the role-playing genre. These type of games often have a mechanic called the job system.

12/10/2021

Life can be good, all you need is to hold on to the positives and keep going. Sounds cheesy, unrealistic, pointless? Maybe. But where there is smoke, there is fire. And this is one such real-life experience that I believe reinforces my notion.

Feel free to read this story about a friend of mine, and decide for yourself.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:6853738092646531073?updateEntityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_feedUpdate%3A%28*%2Curn%3Ali%3AugcPost%3A6853738092646531073%29

Life can be good, all you need is to hold on to the positives and keep going. Sounds cheesy, unrealistic, pointless? Maybe. But where there is smoke, there...

20/09/2021

A few days ago, I caught this little phenomenon. A regular-looking sky on the right, that completely became blank going to the left. Why was that?

Turns out, this wasn't a first-time happening.
The prior sky-splitter occurrence was captured by Uma Gopalakrishnan, in Charlotte, North Carolina, on July 13 at 8:55 p.m. local time. She took a picture of a sky that was split between the colors blue and red-ish, during the sunset. It took place when shadows of a larger cloud from beyond the horizon prevented sunlight from passing clouds that were closer to the viewer's ground.

It was theorized to be caused by the sun's position during sunset/sunrise. However, this particular picture is from August 31st, 5:41 pm. When the sun was still visible. Though I must use the word "visible" loosely, as this was a cloudy day.

So here's my observation, it doesn't necessarily need to be sunset or sunrise. Just a decent angle and a decent obstacle that blocks the cloud. I'm no scientist to answer that in specifics. 😅😅

10/09/2021

Yesterday, I chatted with a friend about a recent online business of his. He started this business, but couldn't continue for various reasons, including failure in a recent attempt. He shared this story with me:

A while ago, he was contracted to sell an imported mirror via Facebook. Using limited paid advertisement, he managed to be contacted by over 20 potential customers. He was a bit knowledgeable with his product and courteous with the prospects. But unfortunately for him, he couldn't get any of them to agree on the price of the mirror.

However, I want to focus on one person. My friend chatted with this woman and made significant progress. Yet just near the end of the deal, she called it off. Her particular words were "This is only suited for someone like her housemaiden. And even she would doubt to buy this mirror."

He couldn't think of anything to say in this sudden shift, other than "Very well, ma'am, please let me know if your housemaiden would be interested in buying this, then."

What I assumed to have happened was, someone she trusted told her that this was a sham, and she fully believed it. That or it's just a petty prank from someone who's got all the time in her life.

Considering such, his reply wasn't particularly great, but I give him props for keeping his calm.

So, I understand that being a novice in this field means that he could've still continued in this field until his growing experience and authority would garner him better results.

But for now, what I want to know is if there was a way he could've handled this particular deal better?