A.B. Dada FAQ My History
I’m A.B. Dada, full name is Adam Brian Dada. Don’t call me Adam or Adam Brian unless we’re sleeping together or you knew me before 1986.
Born in Chicago to immigrant parents (India and Poland), I discovered entrepreneurship at the age of 6 when my cub scout troop visited a McDonalds to see the behind-the-scenes situation. My first business was selling black market guppies out of the local pond at the age of 10.
I sold candy and green slime to students in the 6th grade, getting caught by the Vice Principal who asked me if I knew what an entrepreneur was. I told him “No, but I’m sure I can get it for you.”
In 1987, at the age of 13, I started a BBS service called The Melting Point. Within a year, it was one of the largest multinode systems in the Chicago suburbs. I sold it for a profit at the age of 16, and then began my first steps into business consulting.
The corporate world never made me enthusiastic. I never understood working in a structured program with set hours, set vacation time, set heirarchies of managers and subordinates. My biggest profits always came from my biggest risks. My biggest losses came when I didn’t spend my time properly managing my responsibilities. But the corporate world has always paid me more as a consultant, by the hour, than I could make on any of my small business startups.
After a failed marriage in my mid-20s, I had spent a few years running a print shop for churches, a skateboard chain of retail stores, a clothing store for women’s athletic gear, and a few other small business ventures I was a partner in (bar, restaurant, florist, IT repair shop, etc). Some of these failed, some of these were sold to others, some of these I let expire.
I officially started “blogging” in the late 80s when I was a co-author of a small online zine that was promoted through BBS networks. No one really read it (although I still get random people who tell me they read it back in the day). I began blogging in a structured fashion in the late 90s on a variety of self published blogs. The money was great, but I hated the work. I officially quit the blogosphere in 2003 or so, and focused more on commenting on other blogs and developing an online community of my own.
I always maintained some blogs even after retirement, but never really spent a lot of time on them. I love to write, and write over 10,000 words a week on a variety of topics I am passionate about. Most of them are shared with private groups, but some make it to the public eye. My Viewpoints
I am a natural contrarian. If something is considered common wisdom, I will work hard to dispel it.
I am not a Pick Up Artist.
I am not a Libertarian.
I am not a Misogynist or Racist.
I am not part of any organized group, and I refuse to be part of any organized group.
My focus in everything I do is to create new and sustaining relationships between myself and individuals. Every customer I work with is someone I want to profit from as they profit from whatever it is I am offering. I don’t want generic analytics, I want to know my customers and I want my customers to know me.
I’m a fan of human bonding, but I am also fearful of it for reasons I cover on this website. I love working for my pay, and I never want to rely on yesterday’s work for tomorrow’s income. I am against copyrights, patents and other intellectual property “protections” because I feel they only protect those who can afford expensive shyster lawyers. I hate almost all shyster lawyers, including those in public office.
My religion is Preterist Christian, and I don’t proselytize or try to convert. I believe the so-called “End Times” happened almost 2000 years ago, and that God is silent for a reason, because there’s no more work to do. I truly believe that we all live in a sin-free world and that there is no more salvation or threat of hell or any of that garbage that scares people into paying for buildings to be built to spread more fear to the next generation. The Topics I Cover
I admit to being a professional troll, but I do it publicly, not under an anonymous pseudonym.
I support my writing ventures by selling t-shirts that are politically incorrect or that make me laugh.