Business lawyer and consultant for intellectual property, contract review and drafting, digital assets, start-ups, technology, commercialisation, and trade.
Dealing with a difficult person or legal situation? Explore the #psychology of the people involved. Make records around points 1, 2 and 3. Exploring points 4, 5 and 6 may turn on a lightbulb. That's been my experience for decades.
#legaldisputes#litigation#conflictresolution
To share with friends, over six months I made a selection from the 14,000 pieces. In 2026 I wrote notes on factors influencing the selection of the shared 3,000 piece. This is the contents page of of those notes - Curated Selection Music Notes.
Anglophone cultural history | My music collection of 14,000 pieces has a concentration from 1962 to 1972. As one slice of those years, below is a table listing the release years of studio albums from 1962 to 2023 by Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd.
I prompted AI to translate into an image what I've verbally asked for decades: "Imagine if war planes dropped books, not bombs, over the Middle East. What impact would that have had on the people below?"
What are the costs of the war of aggression against Iran? US$25 B? US$50 B?
Photo of the Areni-1 cave complex, focused on those sunken old clay wine vessels in which the crushed wine rested 6,000 year ago. Read more https://t.co/p2hbKpbu4V. Photo credit: Andrew Drummond, 2024. Vahe states in the video wine history is now researched to back 11,000 years.
Watch to learn how & why wine making reached heights rapidly in Armenia over the last dozen years.
Vahe Keushguerian (@winephilosophy) & his daughter Aimee (@Aimeekeush) are expertly interviewed by Paul Kalemkiarian (@OriginalWOMC) for @CivilNetTV.
https://t.co/sGFg03NuOx
The takeaway for me, as a business innovation lawyer who has worked with wine makers & retailers, is that certain innovations suit certain cultural contexts.
Best reference I suggest is my favourite book: Hall, Peter (1998) Cities in Civilization. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1169 pp.
This table from Google Gemini captures the essence of the astonishing difference between military expenditure this century by the USA compared to Iran.
Figures in the table are in US dollar billions.
#Iran#MilitaryExpenditure#MilitaryIndustrialComplex
MILITARY EXPENDITURES COMPARED, US & IRAN 2000-2024. To compare, prompted Claude, ChatGPT & Gemini for a bar graph. Their raw data differed a bit, but results were effectively the same.
In this ChatGPT two-scale graph, USA (blue) scale is on left, Iran (green) scale on right.
Number of new books publishing per million head of population 1500 to 2009.
My video reproduces the enbedded video on the One World webpage as follows from about 15 or so years ago: https://t.co/CaEhkjJdQZ
#books#publishing#bookpublishing#intellectualhistory
@HovhanNaz I made this video to provide an international context given my long-standing involvement & interest in books & publishing. Your post @HovhanNaz inspired me.
The video reproduces the One World video on this webpage put up I think 15 or so years ago: https://t.co/CaEhkjJdQZ
@SamDalrymple123 A little correction @SamDalrymple123. The Holy Nazareth Church was completed in 1688. It is near the Burrabazar in the Central Kolkata. Many of my immediate and extended family went to the nearby Armenian College.
The church's Wikipedia page is here: https://t.co/tKcmLs2OD1...
@CarolinAbrah77@HovhanNaz 8/8 Ending with fun facts. In Europe by 1500 no. of printed books was 12,589. By 1750 was 455,073. A significant personal library for an intellectual individual in Europe in 1600 was about 1,000 books. By 1700 that number had about tripled. Source, page 60 of this glorious book:
@CarolinAbrah77@HovhanNaz 7/8 Attached is the cover and author page of heavily illustrated booklet titled "The Armenian Weekly (2012) Celebrating 50 years of Armenian printing". 28 pp. Download the PDF here: https://t.co/taGjPdZrul