Dancing Monkeys

Dancing Monkeys

Push the Door

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Shahid Kamal Ahmad
Dec 08, 2020
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My father was a stickler for the rules. He was highly ethical and couldn’t abide cheats. That said, he knew tricks and shortcuts, and knew how people thought. I never really understood that side of him, and remained a “by-the-book” thinker for many years.

Then I realised that to get things done, to accomplish big things, it was not just important, bu…

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