I spent the day with K, meandering around from office to office trying to make some sales. To the companies with Japanese counterparts, naturally, I let him do the talking. For the life of me, I have never seen such ignorant, narrow-minded communication in my life. In fact, his ‘game’ is so bad, I’d be […]
K is back in town and nothing has changed since he was last here. His vision for the company is still flawed, albeit he seems to be getting more in touch with reality nowadays – the reality that his plan is not working. Business is an art and that’s what makes it so compelling and […]
3 months have passed since I started writing this blog and it is time to take stock of progress. During that time, I have witnessed website traffic grow by many multiples, creating a small base of readership to build on going forward. Truth be told, I could care less about that, as that is not […]
Generally speaking, people who talk to strangers are fucking nuts and I make great efforts to avoid them at all costs. More often than not, they either want something from you, are simply lunatics, or have something to sell you in some way, shape, or form. Being a man of diplomacy, I choose to take […]
Being a man of the markets, I took particular interest to the business of falconry, a trade unique to Qatar that dates back centuries. In the past, falconry was serious business, as families and villages often times relied on falcons to hunt for them and bring them food. Training them requires skill, and a special type […]
When a lot of people think of the Middle East, they think danger – never-ending wars and fueled by greed and corruption. This concept is buttressed and aggrandized by media, particularly North American media, who report nothing other than terrorism and political chicanery coming out of the Arab region. This is one of the reasons […]
I am writing this from the most Arabic of Arabic rooms in all of Arabia. The walls are built from carefully crafted limestone and the plates on the table in front of me are filled with hummus and ghanoush. You may find that difficult to believe, especially after looking at the above picture. But what […]
I cashed out of my lotto play, selling HMNY for a shitty 12% gain. She is a bastard of a stock and will burn you if you’re not careful. Just 2 days ago, I was the king of the jungle, sitting on 50% gains, eating candy coated bananas without a care in the world while bitch-slapping the other […]
It was January, 2015, and had I decided to relocate from Bangkok to Japan, with no particular plan in mind. I was invited by an old friend, a university professor in Hokkaido at the time, and also a gigantic cocksucker (more on that later), to help establish a consulting practice in Hokkaido where we would […]
I woke up today to my lotto stock up 47%, on news they are raising $100 million to increase their stake in Movie Pass, a subscriber based platform aimed at movie-goers that has gone from 20,000 users to 600,000+ in the past 2 months. To be honest, the news it was up on is irrelevant, […]