It was his conviction, he said, that a black man like himself, with no education and living in a white man's country, could never expect to get any woman except someone on the game or close to it.
Topics this year include, "How to Optimise Your Brand for the VR Ecosphere," "We Need to Talk About Water Organs," and "Streaming: Bad or What?" If you go to this, expect to get stuck talking to someone who pitched to FACT once about the "difficulties" dance music writing is going through.
Yes, every now and then (maybe every day, depending on your commute) we wish for the ability to tell someone how awful we think they are, but we are also grateful for a society in which we can reasonably expect to get through most days without someone telling us they think we're awful.
But when a situation is too complex for an amateur to grasp — and when it involves shades of gray — you probably shouldn't expect to get a purely objective diagnosis from someone who has a financial incentive to give you something else.
Never expect to get away from doing this to someone.
Stories of corruption, even of car accidents in which young people run someone over and expect to get away with it because their parents are senior in the party, are legion.
Sherry Huang, a retired accountant and grandmother, is not someone you would expect to get worked up over international arms sales, but ask her why Taiwan needs advanced fighter jets from the United States and she will give you an earful.
Collaborative Fund is bringing on a pretty big partner for a new seed-stage fund focused on improving children's lives — and it's not someone you'd expect to get into the venture capital game.
