Mise En Scene

If you are an ambitious person, you must have multiple things going on in your life. They may be related to your work, home, online world, or any other realm. Similarly, you may have personal goals to achieve in your life. To keep you organized and make sure you don't forget these tasks, you need to jot them down. This document is a powerful productivity tool. It is called a to-do list.   What is a Master To-Do List?   It is a combined list of all your to-do tasks and goals in your life. The main purpose of this list is to dump all your goals and tasks from your mind on a piece of paper, a word processor, or maybe in a mobile app. The basic difference between a daily or weekly to-do list and the master list is that the daily/weekly to-do list is short-term whereas the master to-do list is a combined list of tasks that you want to accomplish in the long run or during your entire lifetime. This is not limited to only personal life, you can create one about your professional goal...

Recently, COVID-19 changed everything; the way we work, communicate, enjoy, and interact. Companies and organizations had to adopt the work-from-home model. E-commerce saw a boom as people faced lockdowns and restrictions. businesses realized the importance of digital channels for marketing and selling products and services.  While it created huge job opportunities for digital marketers, it certainly showed that it is not for everyone. Let me elaborate.  The first thing that motivates people to go digital is the success stories of brands and companies that are minting money online. The other is the stats of internet and social media users. When they hear that there are 2 billion Facebook users, Instagram has 800 million users, etc., they start to drool.  What they don't realize is that not all 2 billion people will be interested in their business. This figure is cumulative. These people are divided into different regions, countries, niches, likes, and other categories. It...

Millions of apps exist in the world. The number is increasing exponentially. The real challenge for the developers is to reach the audience. One may have the most fantastic app in the world, but if the users don’t know about it then it is like a white elephant! It costs so much but it is of no use.  Not everyone can afford millions of dollars to market their apps. Marketers are now integrating internet memes for app promotion in particular and promotion in general. Let me tell you a bit about internet memes.   In 1976 a British evolutionary biologist and author, Richard Dawkins in his book “The Selfish Gene” presented the idea of Memes . Analogous to a gene, a meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person across cultures. He likened the spread of ideas from culture to culture similar to the genes found in living beings. As genes can move among offspring, Memes can also mutate, change, and eventually die.  Internet Memes are a subset of memes....

Coding is one of the professions with a profound impact. Programming enabled humans to land on the moon; it revolutionized businesses, created millions of jobs, and digitized every aspect of our daily lives.  However, programming has its fair share of pitfalls that result in huge losses of money and resources. These pitfalls emanate from simple, but bad programming habits. In this article, we’ll discuss five tips that would make your program error-free. So let’s dive in right away: 1. Avoid copy-pasting/plagiarizing code from websites: However, it is entirely normal to search for any problem on Stack Overflow, if you get stuck somewhere. Similarly, it is also reasonable to copy code when you are learning. But a blindly copy-pasting snippet of codes from a website is a bad practice.  It hinders you from realizing your full potential. It is very enticing to take a shortcut, but it would hurt you in the long run. You would become so reliant on online help that you won’t be able t...

The IoT is the latest fad in the computing world. If you haven’t heard it yet, it is the internet of things! It does what it is supposed to do. It connects the electronic devices to the internet e.g., your refrigerators, microwave ovens, cars, and even doorknobs. By 2020 it is estimated that 50 billion devices will be connected to the IoT. Despite the pace of connectivity, IoT is still figuring out some very basic problems such as privacy concerns, security issues, integrating it with traditional computing, data transfer, etc. With the rising number of crimes, traditional computing doesn’t seem very promising. Perhaps Computing based on Quantum Mechanics may resolve these pressing issues.  What is Quantum Mechanics? It is a branch of physics that deals with matter at the subatomic level and its interaction. It differs from Classical Physics in that energy, momentum, and other subatomic properties are quantized or restricted to a certain level. At that level, matter can beha...

Job enrichment denotes assigning new or redesigned job descriptions to the current job roles and responsibilities. Each designee in any organization is assigned certain tasks and roles that s/he is expected to fulfill so they can be entitled to a certain amount of recompense in terms of money, bonuses, perks, and other fringe benefits. The main purpose of job enrichment is to reignite enthusiasm in the employees and give them the feeling that they are cared for and the management not only is concerned about their current job and tasks but also endeavors to give them skill sets that will be beneficial for them in the long run. For example, the network administrator may be assigned the new task of data backup of the organization's online assets. Similarly, job enlargement is to increase the job responsibilities within the ambit of the same designation.  For example, besides the clerical and business correspondence, the personal secretary can be given the responsibilities of pro...

The other day I was reading the Holy Quran I came across the commandments given to Muslims in Chapter 17 (Surah Israa), I found the similar commandments are also found in old and new testaments (10 commandments and seven deadly sins), and even in non-Semitic religions i.e., Buddhism.  People who have read those will find the similarity here (as the Holy Quran confirms what is in the previous books and makes corrections where necessary).  Don’t associate any partner with God. (Chapter: Surah Israa 17, Verse 22) Worship Him alone. (Chapter 17, Verse 23) Respect and Good behavior towards parents. (17, 23) Keeping the ties of Kinship. (17, 26)  Spending in the way of Allah on relatives, destitute, and way-travelers. Avoiding wasting wealth. (17, 26) Don’t kill your children out of fear of poverty. (17, 31) Avoiding extramarital relationship/fornication. (17, 32) Don’t kill the innocent. (17, 33) Don’t devour the wealth of orphans/widows. (17, 34) Fulfill obligations and promi...