I recently updated my Mac to the latest version of Mac to macOS Monterey. Among the loads of big changes that Apple highlighted in their event, there have been a few subtle changes that have popped up throughout the Os. Among these plethoras of subtle changes is one of the most overlooked changes (that’s my assumption) is what Apple has done with their volume feature on Macs with touch bar.

There has been a decent amount of skepticism and criticism on the usability of touch bars in the post-2016 MacBooks. Some people think that they were a huge untapped potential while others thought that it was just an inconvenience and a bad design choice. I fall in the former category, where I feel that there was so much potential to harness the potential of a touch bar on a laptop. But none of the third-party or even the native apps of Mac tapped fully into. I often work with Premiere Pro to edit my vlogs. In recent months I have come to use Pages and the Preview a lot too, but in none of these use cases have I found myself sub-consciously tapping on the touch-bar options. In contrast, whenever I have tried to use the touch-bar on these apps I have just felt frustrated and opted to do it using my touchpad/mouse. One can’t complain about third-party apps not utilizing the potential of the touch bar when Apple hasn’t themselves perfected it on their native apps.

So when I updated to the latest version of macOS I was treated to a surprise, when I found out that the touch bar no longer is dynamic with the app you are using. Rather it has been designed to mimic the physical buttons that were a fan favorite in the pre-2016 Macs and which have made a comeback in the recent installments. One of the more subtle changes among these permanent touch bar buttons is the change in how the volume buttons work.

The older version of the volume button was a slider where you had to slide the slider to set your volume button. Apple being a maestro of design and great user experience made a ghastly choice of building a button where you think the user is informed enough to judge the volume by making an approximation on a slider. I feel sliders are one of the vaguest forms of information input. You never are sure what the exact value that you have set using a slider. To top it off Apple never provide good feedback to let the user see or know what the current volume was when one was changing the volume. So it was all a guessing game for a user.

The new interface is much more informative and easier for a user. The volume high and low buttons are marked using a good choice of icons. And tapping on them does exactly what a user expects. It lowers or increases the volume one step at a time. One can see similar changes on the brightness buttons and keyboard backlighting options too. I don’t know why Apple chose to do what they did, but I am just happy they reverted back

So what are some takeaways from this?
1. Even a customer-centric and design-obsessed company like Apple can get user experience wrong.
2. Sliders aren’t the best option for information input by a user
3. User feedback is an essential part of making a product better:
A lot of times product managers let their ego cloud their thinking and they blame the user for not using the product right. As Don Norman famously said in his book (I am rephrasing), “Users are not stupid, it's your fault for designing a feature in a non-user friendly way”.
4. Reverting to an older more loved version of your app isn’t always a step back in the product, it can be a step forward too.
5. Customer empathy is the only way forward for even huge companies like Apple.

The more we product managers listen to our customers the better experiences we can build for them and the better our product performs in a market

I am an aspiring product manager, who is currently studying as a grad student at Carnegie Mellon University as a Masters in Information Systems Management (Business Intelligence and Data Analytics). I love building and discussing products and would love to connect with you if you would feel like you could pick my brains or would wanna guide me in this vast field of product management. So hit me up!
Do leave your comments about small things in products you love that changed your experience about that product!

Small things: Volume button on macOS Monterey was originally published in Bootcamp on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

After a month of struggling with internship applications, I landed a product management internship role at an early stage ed-tech start-up InfyBytes AI
Labs Pvt. Ltd. At my time of joining, the company was just three months old and had ambitious plans to aggressively scale its business. I was assigned to take charge of the Homework App, a product that aimed to aide teachers in assigning homework to students. This was a perfectly poised opportunity for me to experience the rapidly changing start-up boom and the fast-paced design-develop-reiterate cycle that it brings along with it to accentuate my learnings as a product manager. As I finished my first month at the company my experience was blissfully different from my expectations, and I was enthralled by all that I was offered.

So here are the three things I learned on the way, that I hope will help you as an aspiring/new product manager in your workflow:
1. The only thing that can make or break your product is to know your customer in and out
2. We all have inconspicuous personal biases that can adversely affect our decision-making if not validated using data
3. Defining a problem clearly is more crucial than crafting a solution to the problem

Knowing In and Out about your customer

Although the topic might seem very plebian and apparent to a majority of my readers, I would like to point out that it's easier said than done. The definition of knowing the ins and outs of our customer depends from person to person as well as from organization to organization. For an early-stage startup like ours, it meant interviewing the customers (here teachers and tutors) thoroughly to not only understand their impression of our apps but rather to dig deep enough to know the actual pain points they face in the methods that they were already using before bumping into our app. To obtain this data we had to track individual user’s app usage behavior and then go into performing contextual user interviews. Conducting contextual interviews helped us to ask more pin-pointed questions that would not seem transactional; rather, it would flow in a storyline manner thus letting the user divulge more information that would have otherwise been lost in a transactional interview style. Accurate and in-depth analysis of the data helped us unearth formerly unknown value propositions and helped us not only make feature-level changes but also aided in charting a better direction for the product’s future.

Getting rid of inconspicuous biases

When I took up the task to find out why certain teachers were dropping off of our app, I didn’t think I had to deal with any kind of biases that I had against teachers. It only became apparent to me when my team and I scrutinized the first set of responses gathered from the user interviews I conducted. I had presented the team with a conclusion that most of them were dropping off from our app as they couldn’t find the content they were looking for (in this case, the classes we hadn’t updated our app with yet). But soon enough I noticed that I was only interviewing teachers from tier 1 cities and most of them taught classes that we hadn’t targeted yet. So naturally, the problem that was pointed out by these teachers didn’t give us any new insight. Rather, conducting interviews of teachers in tier 2 and tier 3 cities with poorer internet access helped us figure out that the subjective question submission was a real pain for students, which drove them away from our app. So my inconspicuous bias of targeting only tier 1 cities could have potentially misled us to pursue problems that weren’t maybe on the priority list of the user base we were targeting.

Importance of well-defined problems

More often than not I found myself excited by the cool feature that our product could have, only to be thwarted by the counter questioning that would point out fundamental flaws and non-idealistic consequences of implementing the feature. I was rightly pointed out by my CEO to focus on defining a problem before jumping to a solution. I realized that with a better definition of the problem statement, solutions became easier and more air-tight as a whole. The more time we spend on making the problem statement pin-pointed, the easier it gets for us to not get distracted by vague solutions that take longer to implement with not unpredictable outcomes. A well-defined problem is the stepping stone of a great PRD — Every time your developer doesn’t call you up for doubts which causes unexpected delays you will thank yourself for making the problem statement as clear as possible to leave no room for assumptions while crafting the solution part of the PRD.

Conclusion

In conclusion, I think success for a product starts with understanding one’s customer (user) deeply with genuine curiosity and ends with a well-defined problem statement. Along the way, conducting bias-free research to validate ones’ ideas is important. These are just a few novice ideas that I hope to build upon in the near future.

Well, these were just a few things that I picked up in my first month of internship. These ideas were rather introductory steps in my path to becoming a better product manager. I hope to add more value for aspiring PMs in the upcoming days, weeks, and months by continuing to share my journey and learnings. I would like to hear your thoughts about the article and would love to connect and talk with y’all if you feel like dropping in a DM.
So here is a link to my LinkedIn profile.

Recently I came across a comment on Reddit that pointed out to me that the name Dolores means pain. When I dug a bit deeper I found that it is a Spanish word which means sorrow, taken from the Spanish title of the Virgin Mary María de los Dolores, meaning “Mary of Sorrows” [cite]. So it got me thinking about the Harry Potter character Dolores Umbridge, and I found that the second name of that character Umbridge is just one letter off of the word umbrage which means annoyance. So I put my weird logic to it and deduced maybe the like the character itself in the Harry Potter books her name maybe actually means pain and annoyance. I put this observation on my Instagram story and I gathered some interest among my followers. This motivated me to dig a bit deeper into the other names of the various Harry Potter characters, and I decided to come up with this article digging into the names of other characters of the series.

Disclaimer: All of these are my opinion, please don’t be offended by it. Though leave your thoughts and counter opinions in the comments.

1. Severus Snape
   The often misunderstood beloved character who gave a new meaning to the word “always”, has always been the stern guy with a pointy nose. And no surprise the word Severus in Latin means severe, stern or strict [cite].
   The word Snape has two meanings both of which I found interesting. One of them is to taper, which can maybe point to the character’s pointy nose. The other meaning comes from the assumption that it is a variant of the archaic English word sneap which means a rebuke or snub, which is also one of the characteristics of Snape, given the number of times he can be observed chiding the Harry, Ron and Hermione trio throughout the series.
   2. Minerva McGonagall
   The stern but often witty professor is one of the characters who has a bag full of sarcastic comments in her inventory. Often seen unleashing them on unsuspecting students, she is one of the most loved characters of the series. The word Minerva is the name of the Roman goddess of wisdom, which is often considered the Roman counterpart of Athena the Greek goddess of wisdom. One can easily see the connection between this name and the wisdom exhibited by McGonaggal throughout the seven books (and eight movies).
   The word McGonaggal is made up of two words, Mc and Gonagall. Mc means the “son of” and Gonaggal is derived from the Celtic name “Conegal,” which means “the bravest. I found this [link] which has explained it way better than I can, you can visit it if you are interested.
   3. Xenophilius Lovegood
   Luna’s dad who enlightens the trio with his knowledge about the Deathly Hallows is a queer character and is often underestimated for his importance in the storyline of the series. But one thing that can be agreed upon is this character’s proclivity to the strange things even for the wizarding world and rightly the word Xenophilius means the lover of strange things. It is made up of the Greek word Xenos which means strange and Phile which means love.
   The word Lovegood is just a simple compound word made up of the words love and good. The character is an innocent dad who loves his daughter and is unmoved by the complexities of the world, thus fitting him and his daughter perfectly as someone who loves doing good or just loves being good for a matter of fact.
   4. Quirinus Quirrell
   Okay, so I am gonna admit this one took some thinking before I could come up with an explanation. I am gonna take up explaining the family name first because I think the first name has got a deeper and more interesting meaning to it than Quirrell. While I couldn’t find a proper meaning to the word Quirrell, but this link here suggests it may be linked to the animal squirrel, as the professor can be often seen being scared and quivering like a squirrel.
   Coming to the more interesting part, Quirinus is an early god of the Romans. While a lot of the blogs just point you towards the word meaning a spear and drawing parallelisms with the characters sinister motives being similar to a spear, I would like to point in some other way. So this roman god Quirinus has a rather queer history. Apparently when the kind of Rome Romulus disappeared a guy called Proculus Julius claimed that Romulus had come to him and told him that he Romulus, was Quirinus. Thus Quirinus soon came to be considered the legendary god in Rome. A lot of historians doubt that both Romulus and Quirinus were the same person or entity and were separated into two characters to keep the myth and reality separate. Coming to my observation that Quirrell can be seen living a dual life with Voldemort being hidden on the back of his head through the turban. So can Rowling be pointing to this same fact of two people being the same person?
   I don’t know but maybe just maybe.

Okay so I am gonna end this one here, but I would like to keep this series an open-source kind of thing, where I would love to know your comments, thoughts and more interesting theories than I have put up here. Please let me know in the comments or just drop me a message, I am always up for a good Harry Potter discussion. Maybe we can come up with a better second part together?
Also, I know you can find scores of articles stating the etymology of the Harry Potter character names, I am not the first one to do so, but I just found it interesting that I hadn’t thought about all this being an avid fan for so long. So I am hoping this article pushes you to wonder and find more fascinating stuff about our favorite fandom.
As always be curious!
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THE BRIEF RANT

You are born a man in this world or you are born unlucky. Quite a controversial sentence to start off, I know, but before you come down with your feministic torches blazing, let me clarify that I am on your side. Although I don’t identify myself as a feminist (more on that later), but I really think it's the men who have through the ages tried to tip the balance in their favor, mostly resorting to despicable means. Today being a girl doesn’t only pose the problems like blatant sexism at work but they have to deal with the prevalent creep culture that runs through our society and surprisingly the society has made it pretty quotidian!

THE STORY

You must wonder why the sudden rage and concern from someone who doesn’t even identifies himself as a feminist. Well, recently I encountered a first-hand experience with one such situation which ran shivers down my spine. It was just another evening walk to my PG from the office with my colleagues. Tired and exhausted all we were looking forward to were our beds. The four of us were taking our usual route which, mind you, is a very busy street. So while I and a friend of mine was walking a bit ahead of the rest two of my female friends I suddenly saw a complete stranger trying to be way too friendly with the two friends who were lagging behind. I didn’t give it much thought as I thought it might be just another guy making small talk. But when we crossed the road my friends seemed pretty uncomfortable with this guy’s presence. The guy didn’t seem to deter from whatever motive he had as we tried to make excuses to leave his company. The guy followed us to the Mall, where we pretended to wait for a friend of ours. Finally, I ordered an Uber to get out of there. While the guy got a whiff that there was no way he could follow us anymore he asked for my friend’s number to which they refused. But I have a hunch that the guy was using his camera to shoot my friends but with lack of solid evidence and muscle power, we chose not to perturb the guy. When the guy left one of my friends told me that the guy had grabbed her hand while crossing the road, although she had tried to get him off her hand he had held onto it quite adamantly before my friend had successfully jerked his hand off of her. As enraged I was at the creep I was equally mad at my friend for not confronting the guy. The Uber had finally arrived and we didn’t discuss it much, although I could sense that all my friends were clearly affected by the incident.

THE CONCERN

Although me being a guy shouldn’t have been perturbed by the incident much, it did surely got me thinking about the blatant creep culture that has made its way to the pedestrian events of our society. I do accept that lack of muscle power wasn’t a good enough reason to not confront the guy if we suspected that he was filming my friend, but since this was the first time I had encountered such a lamentable event I was taken by surprise and didn’t handle the situation the way it should have been handled. The other concern that I have is that girls have kind of accepted these sordid events as a part of the struggles they have to face. Girls not confronting and staying quite is what gives these creeps the confidence to misbehave the next time. Maybe it gives them the courage to try something worse the next time. So the next time you stay quite just remember maybe you are making it worse for that creep’s next victim. Although our country can’t handle people kissing with consent they have quietly accepted that molestation and eve-teasing is something inevitable as “Boys will be boys”.

BOYS WILL BE BOYS

This is the worst argument one can pitch while defending their reason to overlook these events occurring almost everyday with a lot more women and girls than you think. While I think these behaviours take roots from ones childhood and lack of proper education, many people may choose to differ with my thought. But, I stick firmly to my belief that if given proper education and the eradication of opposite genders being friends a taboo our society can come a long way to achieve a blissful place to be.

MAYBE THE SOLUTION?

If the guys start seeing the opposite gender as not a trophy to be won or a princess to be impressed, but rather just another friend/colleague of theirs, they will stop being a creep and turn into a bit more human. This can help in quashing the sexism that runs through our society too.

Maybe the time has come for us and our parents to stop being shy and talk about consent and getting it through to our children too that its not okay to ignore a NO.

Also girls please start speaking up! Every-time you don’t there is some dumb guy thinking that maybe singing a song like they show in those Bollywood movies may do the job for them. Also Bollywood for f**k’s sake start showing that consent gets you a girl and not pursuing someone who clearly is disinterested in you.

SOME QUESTIONS TO PONDER

You might remember me mentioning that I do not identifying as a feminist, well I don’t because I find it quite ridiculous that a super smart species like us needs to be pointed out that two genders of the same species need to be treated equally. Where have we come as a species that we need a bunch of people shouting on the roads that it is not okay to touch someone inappropriately. We need to be given day long orientations about what constitutes as harassment.

Maybe our species has run to hastily towards inventions and discoveries that we have forgotten common sense and the human in humanity is dying slowly.

THE SILVER LINING

Maybe as a guy I feel I might have been a tad bit harsh on my fellow gender-mate, but fret not cause I am as much responsible for this condition of our society as any of the others. But brothers on the brighter side we as men have started giving a more serious thoughts to these kinds of events. We have realised that in a world which shouldn’t have needed feminists, there is a dire need for us men to not bow down to women rather, just to not look down on the other gender.

I know a lot of you might not have liked the content of this article, but these thoughts had been in my mind since that contemptible event happened to me and my friends. I don’t want you to give me a clap for this article if you don’t feel like but I would like girls to start speaking up and guys to start understanding that by doing so, a girl isn’t looking for attention.

Cheers!

Windows down, good music in the background, wind blowing through your hair and not a single worry in your tiny little brain; sounds like a music video ain’t it? Well sometimes we do get to experience such stuff and when we do we just wish that the cab ride doesn’t end. We are ready to pay a thousand bucks more but we want the cab driver to just keep driving till the worlds end.

In those fleeting moments when you feel like you are living in one of those ‘When Chai Met Toast’ song one doesn’t even realise that he/she is living in one of the best moments of their lives. Painting a masterpiece without any efforts……. Gah Van Gogh you and your starry nights! We hang the paintings discreetly in the palace of our minds revisiting them on some cold and lonely night when we are snuggled up in a blanket reading a book with good music in the background.

My first memory of such ephemeral euphoria was when I was in my second year of college and I was hanging out with my friends when I had got back home. We were driving through the night and I just put my head out (not recommended if you love your head on your shoulders…but gah movie moments are worth the risk), I let the wind blow through my hair and I closed my eyes and I felt gravity loosening up on me and my brain took a short sabbatical from the overthinking routines that keeps me awake at night. Anxiety took a backseat and I let adrenaline and oxytocin drive the shuttle through the space. I don’t know if I make much sense but this is as close as I can come to explain what I felt that night. I have had those experiences quite a lot of times after that and all of them have been nothing less than magic.

I have felt infinite every time and some infinites have been bigger than the others but non were less significant than the others

Thanks for reading through this piece. I have planned to put up similar articles where I have been inspired by a moment that I have captured on my phone on some random day. It may be nostalgia or just the first time I have felt it but I can assure you that all of them are gonna be a heartfelt feeling close to my heart giving you a peek into my dysfunctional life. If you liked it please give it a clap or two and don’t forget to share it.

Do leave a comment about your movie moments below. Cheers!

Till now we have discussed the following things:

1. What is supply
2. The Law of supply
3. The shifts in the graph of supply
4. The factors that cause the shifts in the graph of supply

In this article I will talk about what demand is and what factors affect demand. Well, demand is the desire of the consumer to have a good or service in exchange for a price they are willing to pay. Remember the time you go to a grocery store and almost always choose a Balaji over a Lays because you feel that you prefer to eat chips instead of nitrogen. Well a lot of consumers like you are here increasing the demand for Balaji because it is comparatively cheaper. Since the price of Balaji is low the demand for Balaji is high. What if Balaji decides to double its price for the same packet? People are going to get hesitant to buying Balaji now which in turn is going to decrease the quantity demanded in the market. So the demand went down when the price increased. This is an example of how the law of demand works.

The law of demand states that the quantity demanded and the price of a commodity are inversely proportional to each other.

Well, there are some reasons as to why demand and price are inversely proportional to each other. These are namely the substitution effect, the income effect and the law of diminishing marginal utility (phew, so much for making it simple).

Let’s again move to our previous example and look at each of these effects and how they affect the price. When Balaji increased its price, people would have been more open to buying some other chips which is maybe cheaper than Balaji maybe chips XYZ. Here the consumers are replacing (substituting) Balaji with some other brand thus decreasing the demand for Balaji. So an increase in the price of Balaji is causing it to get substituted by some other cheaper product, this is known as the substitution effect. Now, suppose our moms decide to increase our pocket money (cause we still live in our parent’s basement duh!), thus now we have more to spend and may start considering buying that packet of Balaji cause is tastes better than the cheaper substitute. If this phenomenon is seen in a large population where they have more to spend cause of an increase in their incomes then the demand for Balaji is again going to go up which will be cause by the income effect.

Now, imagine a situation where you have bought yourself ten packets of Balaji because why not, when you have the first packet of chips you love the taste, with the second packet of chips its not as great as the first one and as you keep on having more and more chips the satisfaction you receive from it keeps on decreasing at a steady rate and you reach a point where you don’t feel like eating any more chips at all. Then we maybe start looking for chocolates to eat. This is what happens when there is surplus of some commodity in the market, the consumers hit a point where the amount of satisfaction (in some case gratification) received from a commodity is not high enough to spend money on it, which in turn is going to decrease the demand for the commodity. This phenomenon is known as the law of diminishing (decreasing) marginal (additional) utility (satisfaction).

Note: All the above mentioned effects only affect the price and the demand and do not shift the demand curve, thus they only move the point along the curve.

Let’s look at the ways in which there can be a shift in these graphs i.e. a change in the demand. Actually any factor apart from a change in price is going to cause a change in the demand (in turn causing a shift in the graph).

There are namely five major shifters of demand :

1. Taste/Preference: Suppose a study comes out which states that eating Balaji everyday is the root cause to developing cholesterol. People are surely going to be reluctant to buying Balaji even if the price didn’t change. Thus this is going to cause a shift (left shift in this case) in the graph of the demand.

2. Number of Consumers: If there is an influx of people in the states where Balaji is the only brand of chips available, people would be compelled to buy Balaji which is going to increase the demand of Balaji even when the price is constant. Thus an increase in the number of consumers can shift (right shift in this case) the graph.

3. Price of related goods: This one is simple to understand, when the price of a competitive commodity like Lays goes down the demand for Balaji is going to decrease (left shift in graph) as people will opt to buy Lays more. Whereas when a complementing commodity like cold drink gets cheaper, then people would prefer to buy both chips and coke cause of their complementing nature. This is going to increase (right shift in graph) the demand for Balaji.

4. Expectation: If you anticipate that the price of Balaji is going to decrease in the coming few days owing to the festive season, you may choose to withhold buying that packet of chips for now. This is in turn going to decease (left shift in the graph) the demand for Balaji even though there has been no change in price, rather just an expectation of the change in the price.

These were the factors that cause a shift in the graphs to the left or the right i.e. an increase or decrease in demand caused from something apart from change in price.

In the next article I am going to look at what happens when we consider both supply and demand together and how an equilibrium in the price and quantity is achieved. I am also going to take up the different changes that can shift the equilibrium.

Hope you all found this interesting and easy to understand. I would really appreciate your support. Your support will motivate me to write more articles like this so maybe leave a clap and share it if you found this piece of article useful. I will soon release the next part of this series. Till then Cheers!

I was having a hard time understanding the basics of economics when I first tried to venture into its vast universe. I know, that to some of us Economics can seem to be daunting and may seem like all numbers and charts, but in actuality I have found out that economics is as fascinating a subject as Physics or Mathematics. The tutorials that I found online were quite awesome but sometimes it was a tad bit daunting due to its fast pace or use of too many jargons that I had to then google further to get a better clarity. So, I thought about writing a series of articles to help someone like me whose just interested in this subject but has no clue about its array of jargons. I have tried to dumb down the concepts as much as I could and to the farthest of my understanding of the same topic too.

Supply and demand is the cornerstone of why markets work which in turn forms a significant part of economics. I will be tackling just the supply part in this article and take up demand in the next article. Supply refers to the amount of goods supplied by a manufacturer to be consumed by the user. Easy enough? Not so? Umm… let’s take up an example :

Consider a world where there exists a market with no cotton fabric in it. Now, you come along and start manufacturing cotton. So, now the amount of cotton fabric that you manufacture is the amount of cotton that is available in the market i.e. you are the lone supplier of cotton in the market. You control the supply of cotton in the market.

Law of Supply : It states that there is direct relationship between the amount supplied and the price in the market.

Again let’s build up on the same example that we considered before. You usually sell cotton at $1/m. But you see that people are suddenly willing to pay more than the said $1/m because of the popularity of the product and the market price goes to $3/m. So, naturally you would choose to produce more because duh….more price equals more profit (not always but for now let’s assume that). So if the popularity keeps growing and the price is on a steady trot towards $10/m you will naturally be putting in more hours to produce more out of your manufacturing unit. So, if you look at the graph provided below you can clearly see the direct relationship I was talking about while stating the law.

A critical point to be noted at this point is that the change in price is the only driving factor when we are considering the quantity of cotton produced by the manufacturer. When the price is up the manufacturer has more incentive to make more so supply in the market increases.

So, what happens if for some reason you want to manipulate the price of cotton in the market by the quantity you produce or some other factor? For example your cost of production of 1000m of cotton fabric was $500 and then you come across a machine that reduces the production cost of 1000m of cotton fabric to $250, so naturally you would be making more profit even if you sell at the same price i.e. $1/m. Since now you are gaining more profit so naturally you would tend to produce more of it to maximise your profits. This in turn is going to increase the supply of cotton fabric in the market while the price of cotton remains exactly the same in the market for your consumers.

If you look at the graphical consequences of this increase in supply, the graph will surely shift to the right and consequently a decrease in supply will cause the graph to shift to the left. Refer to the graph for better clarity.

Now let’s look at the factors that may cause this shift in the graph that is things that can affect the overall supply in the market. Some of these will seem pretty obvious to you.

Price of Resources : If the price of the cotton seeds go up and at the same time the price of wool is pretty low. You are surely going to consider slowing down the cotton production and start out with making some wool since wool is cheaper to buy for you and thus in turn gives more profit. This is going to decrease the supply of cotton in the market and increase the supply of wool in the market.

Number of Producers : Now if along with you, I also enter the market and start manufacturing cotton. Then it is very easy to guess that the quantity of cotton in the market is going to increase.

Technology : Surely you coming across a magical machine that can churn out thousands of meters of yarn in minutes is going to increase the amount you produce and thus in turn increase the supply of cotton fabric in the market.

Taxes and Subsidies : You have started making quite some profits and like every citizen loving government, they notice it and choose to levy tax on your income. And if its some atrocious dictator who chooses to levy heavy taxes on just cotton, then maybe you will reconsider becoming a hermit. With you gone from the market the supply is definitely going to decrease. Now the government is out of cotton so they go to the mountains to convince you to come back and start producing cotton again. They try to entice you by willing to give you subsidies (reduced tax maybe), so you come back and start manufacturing cotton again and the supply increases again.

Expectations : The government is planning to introduce to tax changes and introduce some subsidies in the coming months. You expect that more subsidies are going to be introduced for the cotton market, so you may choose to slow down the cotton production till the bills are passed so that you can take advantages if the subsidies are introduced. This is going to reduce the supply in the market till the bills are passed.

Hope you all found this interesting and easy to understand. I would really appreciate your support. Your support will motivate me to write more articles like this so maybe leave a clap and share it if you found this piece of article useful. I will soon release the demand part of this series. Till then Cheers!

Phew! We thought we would never return from the self imposed hiatus. This project started out just as a fun exercise between me and my best friend, but the response we got for the part one was motivation enough for us to come with the second part of Project Musing. With a lot of procrastination and jamming sessions we were finally able to come up with these musings.

If you missed out on the first part of the project then here is a link to the first part.

The Process (Duh….):

One of us would initiate, the other one would proceed with the second line and the initiator would terminate. Sometimes it was unexpected, on other times, the meaning completely changed. Sometimes we pooped over the endings, and sometimes shit got so real, we stared at it in disbelief, were it really us who wrote it? But you don’t have to worry we bring you the choicest of the musings (just the way lays claims it brings its chips).

We hope you all readers would love this second version of the project as much as you loved the previous one. We really hope that this one is a bit better than the previous one. So put on a warm blanket and sip away your hot chocolate as you read these ones. If you relate to any of them or would love to know the story behind them then comment away and maybe give us a clap if you really feel like clapping for any of them.

So this was the second set of Musings that we managed to compile and upload after lots and lots of procrastination, hope you liked it this time around too and a special thanks to Radha Parikh who is actually the co-author of this article. We hope to bring out the third part with out this long of a hiatus. So keep an eye out for the next part too.

DFTBA!

The Project Musing started out as an exercise, really. It was merely a game that me and my best-friend played when we had nothing to else to talk about. Both of us felt the need of getting rid of the writer’s block that had occupied our brains. So we thought, let’s muse our way out! But as we got our nerve cells rolling, we realised this was turning out to be something great! Most of the musings have a personal touch to them. That’s an outrageous thing to admit, but we won’t deny that fact. We had a lot of fun twisting up the endings.

The Process :

One of us would initiate, the other one would proceed with the second line and the initiator would terminate. Sometimes it was unexpected, on other times, the meaning completely changed. Sometimes we pooped over the endings, and sometimes shit got so real, we stared at it in disbelief, were it really us who wrote it? But you don’t have to worry we bring you the choicest of the musings (just the way lays claims it brings its chips).
So hop on to the roller coaster ride we are gonna flag off, hope it will be as much fun reading for you guys it as was creating it for us.
Feel free to relate, tear up and don’t be surprised if you’re caught off guard!

So this was the first set of Musings that we managed to compile and upload, hope you liked it and a special thanks to Radha Parikh who is actually the co-author of this article.

Stay tuned for more musings.

Here is a link to the second part of this project.