{"id":1023,"date":"2017-08-18T10:35:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T05:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2017-08-18T10:35:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T05:05:06","slug":"tidbits-aug-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/2017\/08\/tidbits-aug-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Tidbits: Aug 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Beautiful Mind<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One morning, I was pitching in for the wife who was travelling on work, and the breakfast conversation was about how best to get the kids&#8217; lunch boxes ready. I hadn&#8217;t quite processed what I had to, and was thinking aloud about what to do next&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Papa: So, we have one long break and one short break for each of you, plus a football class for one of you. This means we need more than the usual lunch boxes.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger: And, I want noodles &#8211; two packets.<\/p>\n<p>Papa: Ok, but that will mean two more lock boxes. Let me see if I can find them.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger: It&#8217;s simple. Take this one for my short break, and that one plus the other one for my long break.<\/p>\n<p>Papa: That&#8217;s a good solution, thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger: (with a mischievous smile) Reading leads to an analytic mind!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who would&#8217;ve thought?!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Loss Leader<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tiger is now nearly 10 years old, and Pumpkin completed 13 earlier this year. So I thought it was a good time to get them introduced to some concepts that affect the world of business and economics. I picked up a copy of the Mint and took a word from there&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Papa: Shall we do a pop quiz on words you may or may not know?<\/p>\n<p>Both: OK!<\/p>\n<p>Papa: Do you know what &#8220;loss leader&#8221; means in the business context?<\/p>\n<p>Both: Nope<\/p>\n<p>Papa: If you were to take a guess, what would you think it means?<\/p>\n<p>Tiger: The term used to describe when an important leader dies<\/p>\n<p>Pumpkin: Someone who manages the business when it&#8217;s down<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who would&#8217;ve thought?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Beautiful Mind One morning, I was pitching in for the wife who was travelling on work, and the breakfast conversation was about how best<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-wonder-years"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}