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        <title><![CDATA[Thoughts — Mohammad Shaker]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[(De)invest for the long term.]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[In the engineering context, most advice around the topic of what to build/not to build comes from the following:]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[“How can I help?”]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[“How can I help?” — It’s a simple question, but one that’s carried me further than most job titles or credentials.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Weekly: 3 biggest problems(3BP)]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Here's a digest of my week. Something I want to keep doing Gym 5-6 times/week. Focus on 1 thing in each day. Not thinking about anything else.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[23 Things I Learned in 2024.]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Twenty-three hard-won lessons from 2024: do the hard thing first, focus on one thing for four hours before touching anything else, be stubborn about truth but weak in holding it, and always put yourself in rooms where you are the least capable person. Reflection without action is just noise.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Week 34: God and Future]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[I've come upon a post by Tim Ferriss. He mentioned a blog containing a list of 140 questions worth answering.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[اليوم الذي أصبحت فيه كاتباً أفضل]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[هل يمكنك أن تصبح كاتباً أفضل في دقيقتين؟إقرأ أكتر في دقيقتين هنا: http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the\dilbert\blog/2007/06/the\day\you\bec.html]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[من مؤسس Duolingo]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[محاضرة ملهمة من مؤسس تطبيق Duolingo للتعلم اللغوي. This concise summary states the core idea clearly.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mohammad Shaker]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[المعاني الرائعة لموسيقا الفصول الأربعة لفيفالدي]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[استكشاف المعاني العميقة والجمالية في موسيقى فيفالدي الخالدة]]></description>
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            <category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[قمة الغلاظة في حدث غوغل البارحة!]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[البارحة قامت غوغل بإقامة حدث غليظ (ومتشدق) للغاية، والذي كان عن العتاد Hardware بشكل رئيسي.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Short Movie About Biking - With Adaptive Music / فلم قصير عن "البسكلة" مع موسيقا متكيفة!]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Since I haven't done much with music lately (just my games earlier this year) I have decided to come up with something new. Just trying to brush my skill]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[My New Website!]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[I don't know but I somehow forgot to publish a post of my new website (http://mohammadshaker.com/) that I launched earlier this month.]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mohammad Shaker]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The best way to get a book deal? Write a story 19 million people want to read]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Insights on creating viral content and achieving publishing success]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mohammad Shaker]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Social Relationship and Decision-Making explained by Fuzzy Logic]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[This slide was part of my Fuzzy Logic seminar back in 2013 at the Faculty of Information Technology Engineering of Damascus, Syria in the subject of Fuzzy]]></description>
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            <category><![CDATA[Decision Making]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[Fuzzy Logic]]></category>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mohammad Shaker]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Specializations On Coursera]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[I was wondering today why Coursera hasn't yet got the initiative to implement full programs, that consist of multiple courses, on specific domains.]]></description>
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            <category><![CDATA[Coursera]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[Online education]]></category>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mohammad Shaker]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Games are awesome... hmmm.. also make you smarter and healthier]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player\embedded&v=OOsqkQytHOs Good to see how games can influence our life.]]></description>
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            <category><![CDATA[Brain]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[Game]]></category>
            <category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mohammad Shaker]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence! Now what?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Two years ago I have done a brief introduction on Artificial Intelligence for those who just finished high school and want to get in universities (which I]]></description>
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            <category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mohammad Shaker]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gaming and Robotics - Virtual Reality Seminar 2012]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[This is part of my seminar I did in April 2012, at the Faculty of Information Technology Engineering in Damascus, Syria. The slide makes a brief picture]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mohammad Shaker]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[ArtificiaI Intelligence brief Introduction @Wikilogia - Freshman 2012]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Update: for an update and a self-discussion followed by this post go to this post.]]></description>
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            <category><![CDATA[AI]]></category>
            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mohammad Shaker]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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