Author: ahmed

The best position you can be in in a negotiation is if you don’t mind if the deal doesn’t go through. This doesn’t mean that you don’t care. You do. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be wasting your time negotiating. You want the deal to go through. But if it doesn’t, you’re not in a terrible position.… Continue reading Negotiating Power

Did you know that you have to tear a muscle in order to grow it? Yes, your muscles only become stronger and grow when you challenge them with weights or intensity that they previously have not experienced. Your muscle fibers literally get torn. If you keep tearing them without any time to heal, you injure… Continue reading Torn

I’m blessed to be surrounded by amazing people. I noticed a confusing trait of a group of people I work with: They work extremely well with me, but they seemingly severely underperform with others. That’s not to say that I’m a magician that brings out the best of them (the opposite is also true with… Continue reading The Silent Giants

Everything is a spectrum We’re biased to think in binary terms: – good or bad– fast or slow– kind or rude– tidy or messy– pretty or ugly reality is not binary reality is a spectrum I started thinking of good or bad as 0 to 100 instead of 0 to 1 that has helped me… Continue reading Binary vs. Spectrum

Aggressive title, but hear me out. I’ve been told so many times to find ‘balance’. I think balance is bullshit. When people say ‘balance’, they somehow visualize the center point. The exact middle between two extremes. The 50 between 0 and 100. “That’s balance.” That’s bullshit. Balance is different for different people. Work life balance… Continue reading Balance is Bullshit

Friday Reminder: What are your 10 year goals? How can you do them in 6 months? Why?Because you only live once, but if you live with urgency, then you can live multiple lives Why would you want that?Well, you don’t have to, but I for one think life is an amazing place, learning is a… Continue reading On Urgency

I aspire to never be too busy to think. I’ve fallen into this trap recently, multiple times unfortunately. What does it mean to be too busy to think, you wonder? It’s when you’re too ‘busy’ doing things and not sitting down in silence to reflect on them. It’s when you’re in the company of people… Continue reading Too Busy to Think

“Woof”, said my email subject on a Sunday night, sent to a handful of friends. “You are one of less than 10 people who are getting this email”. I’ve been doing some thinking… I think that I’m quite disciplined in my nature, and I have seen some results of that. However, I still think that… Continue reading The Wolfpack

Everyday, you wake up, and you open your inbox. Be it email, slack, whatsapp, instagram, or your news app. You are opening an inbox. It’s insane that the word feels so normal now. There hasn’t always been such a word as ‘inbox’ Inbox is the combination of the words in and box. Your mail in… Continue reading Inbox

The world is full of pain killers. Got a problem with the bacteria in your body? Here’s a bacteria killer (antibiotic). Got an issue that’s causing your histamines to act up? Kill them (antihistamines). Got some generic pain in any part of your body? Destroy it (pain killers). These are shit solutions. Modern medicine is filled… Continue reading Pain Killers