Cobra Effect: When good becomes bad.

COBRA EFFECT

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When the British ruled India, bureaucrats in Delhi concerned about the proliferation of venomous cobras in the city.

So they devised a plan to reduce the cobra population.

They started to offer bounty for every dead cobra.

Initially the plan worked really well.

After sometime, some savvy locals developed a business model:

Breed cobras

Chop of their heads

Turn in cobra heads and collect bounties.

When the government became aware of this, the reward program was scrapped. When cobra breeders set their now-worthless snakes free, the wild cobra population further increased

An incentive designed to reduce the cobra population actually increased it.

Based on this anecdote German economist Horst Siebert coined the term "Cobra Effect".

The cobra effect is the most direct kind of perverse incentive, typically because the incentive unintentionally rewards people for making the issue worse. The term is used to illustrate how incorrect stimulation in economics and politics can cause unintended consequences.

Once you internalize this framework, you see it all around you and in your organization.

Reference:

The Cobra Effect: Good Intentions, Perverse Outcomes

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Short Story Footprints

 One night I had a dream. I dreamed I was walking along the beach with GOD... and across the sky flashed scenes of my life. For each scene I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand... one belonged to me and the other to GOD.

     When the last scene of my life flashed in the sand, I noticed that at times along the path of life there was only one set of footprints. I also noticed that it happened at the very lowest and saddest times of my life. This really bothered me and I questioned GOD about it.

     "GOD, you said that once I decided to follow you, you would walk with me all the way. But I noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life there is only one set of footprints. I don't understand why. In times when I needed you most, you would leave me."

     GOD replied, " My precious, precious child, I love you and I would never ever leave you during your times of trials and sufferings. When you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.

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Vodka, Bear, Whisky or Rum|Albert Einstein Quotes| Visualization of Pi|

Vodka, Bear, Whisky or Rum or ...?

Welcome to issue #04

The title seems to be somewhat awkward but in todays post I will try to differentiate what are these and how these are different. Being a novice, I was unaware of the difference between these alcoholic beverages and did my little bit of researching for finding it. 

Attribution: © O'Dea at Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

What I found online:

Spirits:            Ingredients  -> Fermentation -> Distillation (e.g. Whisky, Rum, Vodka etc.)

Non-spirits:    Ingredients  -> Fermentation   (e.g. Beer, Wine etc.)

Whisky: 

Grain mash such as barley, malted barley, rye, malted rye, wheat, and corn

 -> Fermentation -> Distillation

OR made by distillation of BEER.

Single malt whisky: From a single distillery and is made from a mash that uses only one particular type of malted grain.

Rum:

Byproducts of sugarcane, including sugarcane juice or molasses 

-> Fermentation -> Distillation

So sweeter in taste.

Vodka:

Grains, potatoes and sometimes sugar or fruit

-> Fermentation -> Distillation

A simple explanation, not too much of writing

Quote of the Day

Albert Einstein

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Photo of the Day

This is simple visualization of first 1000 numbers of Pi (22/7)

Website for the Day

This website renders every single road within a city

https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/

Tweet of the Day

That's it for the day. Please send your comment and suggestion.

See you soon.

XOXO

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North Korea and the facts about this weird country | James Clear Quotes | Useless Websites | Tweet of the day

 North Korea and the facts about this weird country

Welcome to issue #03

By Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89442959

Todays post is going to be about the east Asian country North Korea and its weird rules and regulations.

1. North Korea elections: Citizens have only one candidate to choose from, 99.99% cast vote. 

2. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea calendar, DPRK calendar, or Juche calendar begins with the birth of Kim II-sung

3. North Korea bans skinny jeans as symbol of ‘capitalistic lifestyle’

4. North Korea has state-sanctioned haircuts for men and women.

5. North Korea only has 28 websites for access.

6. For a persons crime, whole family will face punishment.

7. There are four television channels in North Korea. All are state-owned and usually last from daytime to prime time.

8. Condoms are banned in North Korea.

9. People should save portraits of the Korean leaders otherwise you will jailed.

10. Sleeping in a meeting will kill you.

See what had happened to American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea in 2016 on a charge of subversion.

Quote of the Day

James Clear

“When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.”

“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it—but all that had gone before.”

“Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.”

“Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.”

“Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.”

“If you want better results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.”

Photo  of the Day

I stumbled upon this and liked it very much.

Yes its a golf ball striking.

Websites for the Day

Create beautiful looking images of tweets of anyone using this website

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Useless Websites

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Tweet of the Day

https://twitter.com/AlexLlullTW/

That's it for the day. Please send your comment and suggestion.

See you soon.

XOXO

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Did we know this about Indian Highways | A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Quote | Alphabetizer |Tweet for the Day

Did We Know This About Indian Highways

Welcome to issue #02

We have a natural instinct of cursing those who made our roads or highways as the large craters, holes or bumpers made us to do that. But are we cursing the right authority for that. For example you are traveling on state highway and cursing NHAI.

So today i am going to differentiate the different highways or roads on the basis of Milestones. Some may know the nomenclatures and some may be unaware of it.

In India, on administrative basis, there are 3 kind of roads - the one maintained by the NHAI (Central body), the respective state government and the district administration. You might have come across the milestones also.

1. NATIONAL HIGHWAY

The one with Yellow and White Milestone.

2. STATE HIGHWAY

The one with White and Green Milestone.

3. CITY ROAD OR DISTRICT ROAD
The one with Black and White or Simply White Milestone

Quote of the Day

“Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.” 

                                                                                ― A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Photo of the Day

This man turns the shadows from the everyday object to wonderful doodles. Creative indeed

https://www.vincentbal.com/

Websites for the Day

The Alphabetize list tool is a sort tool that will take care of all your alphabetizing needs and put a list in ABC order - even in COVID-19 pandemic times!

alphabetizer

Tweet for the Day

https://twitter.com/StartupIllustr

That's it for the day. Please send your comment and suggestion.

See you soon.

XOXO

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How I print on the right side of paper in every printout from printer

Welcome to the issue #01

Most of the time in office, i came across same question an umpteen number of times.

How to place the paper in the printer paper tray, so that the print can be taken correctly. Specially when people want to take print in the blank reverse side of the already printed paper.

Its always be a great task to know which side the printer will print in a page. Either in top or in bottom face. Generally we go through simple hit and trial method. Today i am going to disclose how to know which side the printer will print using only a sign on the printer.

Source:Wikimedia

Some printers print on front side while some on back of the paper. 

So the solution is, try to find the below mentioned icon near your printer paper tray.

Scenario 01

You can see lines are on top, so it will print on front side of the paper if you place the blank side of paper in tray and if the icon doesn't have lines on paper but on left top corner like the scenario 02,

Scenario 02

it will print behind the paper.

Quote for the Day

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

~Oprah Winfrey

Photo of the Day 

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Uğur Gallenkuş (@ugurgallen)

Website for the Day

Chrome Music Lab

Chrome Music Lab is a website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments.

 Tweet for the Day

I was lightly scolded by my wife and oldest daughter for using the baby as a table. They’re just mad they didn’t think of it first. pic.twitter.com/BTUmJEcckM

— Terence (@TOPolk) August 28, 2021

That's it for the day. Please send your comment and suggestion.

See you soon.

XOXO

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Let us create

From:https://unsplash.com/@slangston

Its been a long time when I last posted anything online in a blogging platform.

And for last few days I am just thinking of breaking that monotonous life of not writing anything.

So probably from today onwards I will try at my level best to provide you, rather myself, something some piece of life in the form of online blog.

Even though this blog post may not help you out in any form as depicted in the description of the blog

i.e. 

"Marketplace for something productive, something useful, something entertaining....."

but this will motivate me to write something useful and fruitful.

A lot of changes and editing is still remaining with the website but with due course of time this will come to an end for sure.

Why NAGERBAZAR?

Their is no specific reason for selecting it thou. But reason could be that I recently bought a sweet little flat in the locality named as NAGERBAZAR in Kolkata (India).

I was searching for some domain name and found that this name is available and I booked it.

The name may be new and odd for many of us but its a name and easy to remember.

What I do?

I am an Engineer (not a software one) by profession and live in the city of joy KOLKATA.

So for the time being this much of information is enough, and if you are interested in knowing more you can comment and I will get back to you in some sort of communication.

The blog is in nascent stage and needs your support for its growth. Please share it with your near and dear ones. 

Signing off

Aritra Sarkar

www.NagerBazar.com

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