After aramex started to charge really high fees on any packages that comes to Kuwait i started to hesitate to buy online, i’v bought a book for 7 dollars on amazon and got it to be sent via free delivery. But when Aramex delivers the book to me, i get charged 9KD. So you can see the difference how business runs in the states and compared us here in Kuwait from a price perspective. There are reasons why but i will not get into them because i need a different post by itself. Anyways so i got hit by an ad about audie books and said lets check out the site. Then i started thinking would listening to a book be any different than from reading it. From a usability perspective its much better, i cant run on the treadmill and  read a book simlataneously, but surly can listen to one.

The Book

Its about behaviorural economics and one interesting subject i never knew about, when i started listing i got hooked fast. The book is called Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, and its about how economies behave based on our hardwired thinking process. Give the book a try, you wont regret it.

Non Kuwaiti companies ownership rules

Back to the post,  after reading the book and after remembering my economic classes at KU which i failed strongly, i noticed how important it is today to understand Kuwaits economy. One major part i have many questions for is job creation. I’ll post one day about the cupcake and khalajeen economy we are building now. So like many developed economies they run more efficiently by utilizing the private sector, and we all know from a broader understanding why, due to profit making and searching for better markets to make more profits using efficent means. Then i started thinking about the Kuwaiti labor force and how we are not up to the job due to lack of skills. To create a better job market and increase levels of skill acquiring, we need to open the market to foreign companies. Some will argue that this will demolish our local companies, but remember how competitiveness makes us learn more and become creative. Because our local companies our working within a semi closed economy, our companies are not even close to international standards from a efficiency perspective. Why? because they only compete locally. So now imagine the law opens to non Kuwaiti companies and staffing should be done by 50% Kuwaitis,  the international skills will filter down to Kuwaitis resulting in creating more jobs for Kuwaitis and higher learning curves.  But the question here, why is Kuwait not opening up?? doing so would employ many Kuwaitis and create a better and more efficient work force. A small example would be the telecoms sector, now you can see how Viva blow the prices out of proportion and the influx of employees moving between these companies. The newly established telecommunication commission to regulate these companies is a result of Viva entering the market. Because of Viva now you have the option to switch your provider without changing your phone number. I really would like to ask such questions in the parliament instead of giving a holiday for the last 10 days in ramadan or if the Persian gulf should be recalled to the Arabian gulf!

 

  

Washington was not only an Author, but also a Diplomat in Spain back in the 19th Century, back then, he took a long journey riding a mule crossing spain and ending up in Alhambra palace in Granada.

in This book, he describes what he observed in a magical way, takes the reader back to the glory days of the Islamic/Arab Khalifa, literature mixed with fairy tales, something close to 1001 Arabian nights. I Highly recommend this book for people who like to read about Travel/history/art.

the book i have is Washington Irving : Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveller, The Alhambra (Library of America) (Hardcover) .

Published in 1992. it was originaly published back in 1832.

it is a available in a new edition published in 2005.

i give this book a rating of 9/10

usually superheros each and everyone has his/her weaknesses, but SPIDERMAN in Part III proved to be undistructable !

want to kill Superman ? just expose him to some Kryptonite…aih ?

But SPIDERMAN kept on fighting and standing and constantly changing outfits ! yeah the dude got an upgraded BLACK outfit that sort of gave him a TURBO KICK.

i dont know what gives every and each one strength to keep on going in this world, my strength has been looking forward into the future and never looking back, what is your Strength ? what makes you jump up off the bed every morning with a big smile feeling all optimistic like that you own the world ?

blah … blah… blah

While the post is about amazon.com, does anybody know why they are still in business when all other online retailers of the 2001 internet boom lost? they where so much in debt, and needed more money to pay expenses, their investors payed them, because they were deep into debt and its not worth pulling the plug on them at that time. But now Amazon.com is making profits and booming again. I’ll rate them when i’m done in the year 2019:P