Feedback

Feedback is something that allows us to adjust to how others see us. Depending on whom you ask, you will get different answers.

When I ask my sister what I’m good at, she says simply, “selling.”  I disagree. I can be engaging. I have promoted electric vehicles as enthusiastically as I have promoted concerts, but that’s not “selling.”

So what am I good at?

I will use this page to document the feedback I have received over the years. Perhaps some of my friends, colleagues, and readers would care to LEAVE A REPLY below.


It seems to me that you have found a position that takes advantage of your unique skills: the ability to understand a new subject quickly and the interest in talking to people about their specialties. I have been amazed by how well you have tackled such diverse subjects and made it understandable.

Risk manager, Oregon-based energy trading company


Thank you so much for performing at the Mayor’s Charity fundraiser on the 19th of December 2003. I was so grateful that you were able to attend at such short notice and entertain us for most of the evening.

I believe an enjoyable evening was had by all; I hope that you managed to enjoy the evening in between performances. I also received many compliments on the choice of entertainment chosen to accompany dinner and hope that you received such compliments on the night too.

I am pleased to announce that I have now raised just over £20,000 for my chosen charities; I thank you for your invaluable support.

The Mayor of Ealing, 23 December 2003

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Reinventing myself

About half a year ago my website anneku.com got hacked. My e-mail address stopped working. My webhost stopped hosting the contents of my site to prevent further attacks to the server. My identity was erased from cyberspace.

It echoed a certain deja vu of Tuesday 11 September 2001. I could have disappeared from the top floor where a risk management conference was taking place. Instead, I watched the twin towers crumble and vanish from our staff meeting room above Penn Station. That week in Manhattan, amidst the uncertainty and chaos, changed the way I viewed life.

Today I decided to rebuild my site on wordpress, just as I try to declutter and simplify my existence in the physical world. In parallel, I must choose what to keep, what to give away, what to throw away, and what to sell.

In reinventing myself for the nth time, I ask the same questions: what is important to me? what have I done? what am I good at? what do I want to do?

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