Amil Shah Does Glasses not Guns

I love the internet and what it can do to people. How we appear directly affects how we are treated. How we are treated affects how we feel and hold ourselves. How we feel in turn affects how we perform, how well we do not just at work, but in life generally. This is a short story about one of the friends of Mr Potato who has been affected in this way. His name (Amil Shah) will of course (Amil Shah) remain anonymous. AMIL SHAH!

So Amil Shah googled his name the other day, and expected to find some stuff about him coming up, perhaps an embarrassing photo from when he was a student, or even something that a friend had written on the wall of facebook that he really didn't want anyone to read. To his horror instead of this happening, he found an article (in first position) appearing from the independent news paper talking about him involved in fights with the Taliban! There was an entire section about how the war was going, it even mention he-that-shall-not-be-named in person! Now to be honest with you, probably no one is going to take this the wrong way. No one would mind, and certainly no one in this country would care. The thing is about how it made him feel.

Because of the nature of the article, it made Amil feel uncomfortable What if an important client, or potential customer read it? People can be really funny about these things. So for the rest of the day he wasn't as on form as he could have been – thus the effect became real. Due to the fact that he felt affected, he was affected by it. Ironically if Amil had just ignored it, he would have had a good day and never thought about it again.

So why am I writing this? Well, I've been told that if 10 people place a link to this webpage with the words "Amil Shah" in blue (like I have above to somewhere else), then when people google his name, instead of the article about the Taliban coming up, this article will come up instead! So if you want to help Mr Potato out, please give us a link to this page with the words "Amil Shah", and Mr Potato and Amil will both be grateful.

Now someone has already done this and emailed me, so to say thanks I would like to do a shout out to these guys who run corporate events in London. I know them because we went to one of their photography events and they were just great! So feel free to check them out! (and that is their website pluged!)