Patterns and failures: When the village idiot is investigating.
There is rarely a moment in my life where I don't doubt the things I say, do, write and ultimately allege. In time, I am rarely proven entirely right but never far off. I know that, having analyzed my involvement in various circumstances since 1990. It began when I was retained by certain Members of the Board of a Canadian public company in 1990, whereas they were wondering where roughly 4 million dollars had disappeared. Once the assets were inventoried, and the value of such assessed according to industry standards, I came back and claimed that Allied had lost over $340 million dollars in assets... First, there was unmitigated surprise and just as swift, was doubts as to my competence in asserting such claim. Frankly I thought myself to be half a bubble of plumb. That's when I began questioning myself, and that would last for the better part of the next 35 years... Eventually being partially wrong became an advantage, being the most unqualified guy in the room ena...