Emo post

Do we really need cell phones that power up from the charger when the battery is removed? Or the other way around? No.

We invite these problems. Thus we earn our bread and butter (or just bread for vegans like me). And we absolutely love solving these problems. Many of our lives are nil and purposeless if we did not have hi-tech gadgets or communication devices. We sweat it out, work over long weekends just to feel a sense of satisfaction over solving an issue associated with a microscopic (literally!) part of an instrument.

When that is the case, why do we fret over personal problems? Why can't we take an impersonal approach to solve these problems? Do we get pissed off with an opamp for not working the way it is supposed to? Sure, we all swear at our work, but we know deep down that we are to blame. This is because a resistor, capacitor or transistor can NEVER behave the way it is not supposed to. Obviously any idiosyncracy must be due to a wrong hook-up and/or ignorance about some second or third order effect. That is it. Law of nature. Beyond scrutiny.

Similarly, if we adopt an introspective bent of mind in every problem that we face, and immediately correct / amend ourselves to best suit the situation with no personal feelings, that would certainly lead to the most effective solution. Possibly the only solution. People are just transistors, bias them the wrong way and they fuck you over.

Most discoveries were made by questioning the basic behaviour of materials, and not accepting them as truths beyond the scope of scrutiny. Similarly, if we analyze people and their problems there might spring up many an unravelled truth about them. But who hurts less? The transistor or the person?