Famous historic agreements and events happen on various soils - as in country's or properties owned by stars or the rich and famous or politically established. I have a problem with that.
First of all that property is generally so removed from the actual event it is trying to control or address that it is meaningless.
Its like signing a deal on the water off the coast of Madagascar to set the Bundesbank funds rate. Who? What?
So it is with all these idiotic locales that someone chose without asking me.
Bretton Woods system is one that oft gets cited as the one that led us out of the woods..who picked this mountain resort and who is this Bretton? Why that specifically? I mean when the WWII was raging they could have put themselves in the thick of it and done the deal on the beaches of Normandy?
Camp David- what the heck is that? It is not a camp. There are no cloth tents or mosquito nets where the leaders go to hob nob gobble? Where are the pictures of the Arab leaders skewering their marshmallows on open fire? Another ridiculous location and even more ridiculous events that follow..
World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland - Now why would you make all these people burn precious little gasoline to get up on the mount to yak about how to improve our world. I vote that it be held in Dharavi slums of Mumbai. That will teach them whats wrong with the world.
Cool cat the Japanese are Tokyo at dusk My second visit to this land of the rising sun after almost a decade. Back then clearly I was wet behind the ears product manager and likely didn’t pay attention to all (efficient) things Japanese. But today I did and of course continue to be impressed. It is as much the obvious stuff like on time travel that is both clean and comfortable and all that which makes it possible. The impressive landmark and landscapes that these humans have put together despite their cramped (or because of it) surroundings and precarious geological conditions could amaze a novice architect among us. But it’s also the little things that someone had to think about which have a phenomenal impact on day to day lives that make the Japanese stand apart. Below are few random examples- 1. Providing a very fine machined wooden toothpick in every packet of wooden chopsticks. The said chapsticks are simply set on the To Go counter of any food vendor/ convenience store wher...
It might, or it might not...but the point is well-taken.
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