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Once upon a time, a friend invited me to a yoga class. Two months later, our company received a wire transfer from an investor. Those 2 events are completely correlated. As a tech startup CEO, a great chunk of my job is networking. Whether during events, in the elevator, while in a queue at Starbucks, or even in a yoga class. … Read More

Lesson learnt. Thankfully, the easy way. As I was leaving Bahrain Tech Week’s awesome event, I glimpsed a small group of the organizers on the side so I went to say hi. I thanked each one of them for what he/she was doing: “Thank you for the coverage!” “Thank you for MCing” “Thank you for the support!” until I reached … Read More

The term Startup has invaded our dictionaries heavily in the past 5 years. It’s been overused and abused. Here, I explain why most businesses are not a startup. If you are a newly established design agency, you are not a startup. If you have a small law firm, you’re not a startup. Running a salon on the side? Nope. Not a … Read More

“The world is this continually unfolding set of possibilities and opportunities, and the tricky thing about life is, on the one hand having the courage to enter into things that are unfamiliar, but also having the wisdom to stop exploring when you’ve found something worth sticking around for. That is true of a place, of a person, of a vocation. … Read More

Meet my new $2 words! Conscientiousness and Industriousness are very similar concepts. Also, meet my new favorite modern psychologist! Jordan Peterson. He’s a YouTube star from the videos of his lectures and the vlogs he shares (which he records at midnight when he has thoughts keeping him awake instead of writing them down on a piece of paper). Here are my … Read More

Recently, I stumbled upon a couple of very thought provocative questions on separate occasions which had me pause for a while and think. Today, I created a list on Google Keep of those questions aiming to update them and go through them every week or more frequently. Here, I will share those with my insight on each, and I’ll update the … Read More

Typical self development gurus will often advise to go about life finding and discovering yourself. Realize what you like and dislike, know what you’re good at and what you’re not, etc… But wait, was I born this way? With my likes and dislikes predetermined? With my skills preprogrammed? “I’m an introvert, public speaking isn’t my thing” But.. who stamped the … Read More

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it” As much as I truly admire this quote and understand its core, it treats “life” as a reactive experience that happens to you by “Chance” and fails to realize that it could be a proactive experience with independent “Choice”. I realize more as I grow that … Read More

This is something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time, and thanks to some self-discipline (which took me a month) and freemium software, it’s finally taking place. I want to schedule calls in the early morning with ambitious individuals for the main purpose of us committing to the call, hence waking up early and seizing the day, and … Read More

I have often asked myself why Millennials generation is so special, or at least why it is perceived by the media to be so. I found many answers by reading, observing, and thinking.. but the one that satisfied my curiosity the most was the following: access to information. This single advantage millennials had has widened the gap between themselves and … Read More