They say having OCD has its perks. For example, you check a lawyer’s profile a hundred times just to make sure there are no typos. I revise your profiles more than a dozen times and I sometimes even dream about your card designs.
One thing Koosha and I have in common is that we both failed a whole school year at high school! But unlike him, I quit Atari and ended up becoming a teacher.
My other talents? Deciphering Koosha’s cryptic and short-handed messages! For 30 years, he’s only listened to the first few seconds of my long explanations, and yet he somehow gets my point. He probably picked up that skill from you lawyers. Meanwhile, I read his one-word replies and have to guess what he means, probably, thanks to my teaching skills.
When you don’t reply to my emails, I keep myself busy writing about teaching methods for language teachers on Instagram and my personal website. Sometimes, I even run workshops for them. Oh, and occasionally, I observe language school teachers’ classes and give them feedback.
When I’m not working, I go around town, take photos of people & places, and write about them. My other IG page here, where I share Tehran photos.
Arash Sufi
A job that is tied to a specific time or place was never for me. I’m more into “Anytime, Anywhere.” It’s not a big deal these days. Now everyone can do that but it used to be a dream job.
My first computer was a Spectrum 128 with an integral cassette. It cost 16,000 Tomans in 1986. I spent so much time coding in BASIC that I failed my third year of high school. My father almost kicked me out of the house. I ended up staying at my friend Agh Rez’s place for a few days, but things got even worse—we spent entire nights playing River Raid on an Atari 2600.
A few years later, in 1997, I arrived in England and registered my company. Back then, the concept of a website was as unfamiliar to some people as a UFO. When Google was launched, people gradually began asking, “How do I rank at the top of Google?”. It took a lot of learning and experimentation before we could confidently establish ourselves as a digital marketing company.
We started Iranianlawyer.org in 2008 with Arash. It took a few years of hard work before lawyers gradually started paying attention. Now, some pages of the site are sold out, like the Canada page. We now have a waiting list for lawyers who want to upgrade to higher ranks.
This website is constantly evolving. Almost every month, a new version is released. Some updates make the code cleaner and simpler, while others improve user experience. Our to-do list is as long as Xerxes army marching to Athen. Development log since 2015 here.
To take a project seriously, one should dedicate as much time as raising a child, with a lot of patience. Daily walks in a quiet and beautiful village helps too. My personal blog here.
Suggestions? Complaints? Or just a nostalgic WhatsApp message? We’re online 25 hours a day. Contact.
Koosha Hashemi