Ali Parandeh

Community Rules, by laws and yet more rules. Are we free to do what we want in our homes?

15 years ago, I bought an apartment in a beautiful quiet complex on the Mijas road.  The complex was only a few years old and most owners were retired or second holiday home owners.  That was just what I wanted; somewhere nice and quiet.  There were hardly any rules required.   In fact the community rules …

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Ruth Katz and Ali Parandeh

Lunch with Ruth Katz – ex president of Las Terrazas Puerto del Almendro

This is my third lunch this week and after nearly one year of lockdown and hardly going out, this almost feels too much. In fact, I am not that hungry.  Our meeting place is at Nuevo Reino in San Pedro right on the beachfront which is where I met Ruth, the ex-president of Las Terrazas …

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Patrick Meehan and Ali Parandeh, Lunch with The Presidents Club

Lunch with Patrick Meehan, ex-president of Edificio Acapulco in Los Boliches

I am loving this and I am so grateful for being able to be doing this.  My guest for today’s lunch is Patrick Meehan.  He is the ex-president of the community “Edificio Acapulco” in Los Boliches and as I learn later on during our conversation, he is willing to stand up for the job again. …

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Lunch with Charles Edwards, president of Las Delicias Urbanization in Coin

The Presidents Club has been on hold for some years now.  We stopped activity as another company had created confusion amongst our customers by setting up as “The Presidents Club International”. Needless to say, we won the court case, however, in the interim we had ceased our activity to avoid confusion for our clients. We are …

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What’s love got to do with it?

This was the title of today’s CB Insight, a weekly newsletter that I get from (cbinsights.com).  While their article was about falling out of love with a project after an entrepreneur took an early lump sum reward, my story is about those who haven’t.

Did we all turn mechanics at the turn of the Industrial age? And do we all need to become coders?

I have just managed to read the article of Zach Sims, Cofounder of Codecademy in FT Weekend issue ½ November 2014. I was kind of surprised to read that so many people believe that coding is so important. As a programmer, I don’t think coding is the important part, but rather teaching the younger generation …

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