About You

“Speech and action… are the modes in which human beings appear to each other, not indeed as physical objects, but qua men. This appearance, are distinguished by mere bodily existence, rests on initiative, but it is an initiative from which no human being can refrain and still be human”..........“The Human Condition” Hannah Arendt

Have you ever heard a story about you? Have you ever stumbled upon people having that discussion? You will be startled as you observe the perception other people hold.

Let me first say one thing. Everybody talks. One form of entertainment we all engage in. Most actions we take spurs from that singular act as it is a primary source of individual information on what's happening. The medium of expression is a person, with a different perception of life and what it all entails. That perception, mixed with a sense of humor, style of speech, behavioral patterns, and the petty things unique to that individual (those things that he/she considers important) leaves an impression on the descriptions, the final output, the story and invariably the concept of that person called YOU .

So when someone says that story, the person being described will not be who you perceive yourself to be. And what’s amusing is another person's story might be a completely different version depending on how distant the story tellers are mentally.

Amazing isn’t it?

Cult of Amateurs

(This title was dubbed from the book by Andrew Keen with the same name)

It is official! 

Nigeria is the safest economy to invest in. Using some ratings, the experts at Merrill Lynch have come to that conclusion. 
I take this news with mixed feeling.                                               

On the bright side, it shows that all our shrewd, trust lacking, cash & carry business principles is the way to go. Knowing we are at the fore front of this "cutting edge" management practice, we are better positioned to establish our self as a force to reckon with in the emerging new world order. 

But on another note, is this report saying that the actions by modern economies are not in tuned to what's in? Another interpretation of this article implies that the step by step, meticulous approach applied by developing countries (like Malaysia or Singapore) in making their economy a foreign direct investment attraction does not exactly do what is says on the tin. On a lighter note, if this interpretation is the way society responds to this report, then one can say that mob mentality and chaos as business strategies would be principles the London Business School of Economics must adopted as it trains the next world thinkers (Maybe they would be better trained in Nigeria).
What we are reading is stating that the responsibility of safeguarding the world's future should be left to the hands of quacks, depth-lacking policy makers & rent seeking professionals; in other words I refer to the component of our amateur managed economy. 

This world economy downturn is worst than I thought.