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            <title><![CDATA[Reading Books at the Right Time]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[On reading books at the right time. I first encountered The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb while doing my MSc in France in 2014, listening to it as an]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Would I Want to Spend 10,000 Hours On?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[This is something I’ve written for myself a couple of years back.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Agents Are Eating the Application Business Layer]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[LLM-powered agents are replacing the traditional business logic layer in software. Instead of hardcoded rules and workflows, agents decide at runtime which tools to call, which APIs to hit, and when to delegate. The familiar three-tier architecture is collapsing into a thin CRUD layer plus an agent reasoning layer.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Weekly: Drinking from Small Cups]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[It's reading a deep \[hard\] books or learning something new for an hour after an exercise/running session.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Don’t Take Anything for Granted.]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Don’t Take Anything for Granted. One of the good things that I learned early in management of engineering functions is this: never force a ready-made]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[KnowING What I Can't Control.]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[When should I adopt a new technology? When should I take risks? When should I play it safe?]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[“I'm not a Hypocrite.”]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[I should only ask people to do things I will do myself. If I'm asking someone to do something that I won't do myself, then I am a hypocrite. Plain and simple.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Current Expert Problem with ChatGPT]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[ChatGPT is a generalist, not a sniper — it answers confidently even when it shouldn't. This is dangerous for junior engineers who copy-paste without review and for PMs who treat its output as final. Used correctly, as a junior team member who needs guidance and guardrails, it is genuinely useful.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[On Trusting.]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Writing this reminds me of when I started working on my own two startups seven years ago. I struggled to delegate work.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[On Self Worth.]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Waiting for outside approval is one of the worst thing we can tie ourselves into.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[No SDETs and No QA Engineers.]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Never hiring QA engineers or SDETs is one of the best decisions I’ve made across multiple startups. With TDD, CI/CD pipelines, and AI-assisted testing, developers should own quality directly. Dedicated test roles create slow feedback loops, diffuse accountability, and signal that the team doesn’t fully trust its own engineers.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[I’m a Libre. I Hate Dependencies.]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[All misery stems from dependence—whether in personal life or business. To be free, truly free, we must be libre.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[For the Love of Old Books]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Old book are normally called the timeless - what marketers call nowadays: the evergreen.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[I'm not different.]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[I think people are different. What works for others doesn't work for me. And I should accept that.]]></description>
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            <category><![CDATA[alphazed]]></category>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Design Specialization from CalArts]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Long time, no see. I'm working on something new I won't talk about yet. Though, I recently finished 5-course design program from CalArts on Coursera.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[أظن أنك سمين! I think you are fat!]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[هل يجب علينا دوماً عدم الكذب؟ Read on: http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26792/honesty0707/]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[تحتاج فقط إلى ١٠٠٠ مشجع!]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Read more in this piece: http://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The World's Healthiest 75-Year-Old Man]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Read a post from 2008: http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a4454/don-wildman-0508/]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[#هيك #رسمي]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[فيديو يوثق لحظات الرسم والإبداع الفني لمحمد شاكر. This concise summary states the core idea clearly.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[رسم الأشخاص في الطائرة  / Drawing People on the Plane - Pack 04]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[رسومات سريعة للأشخاص أثناء السفر بالطائرة - الحزمة الرابعة]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[On Discipline and Focus - Jony Ive]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA["The discipline to turn your back on something you believe in passionately, so you can apply yourself to what's at hand, is really remarkable"]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Another Monsters Pack!]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Another collection of creative monster character illustrations]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[رسم الأشخاص في الطائرة  / Drawing People on the Plane - Pack 01]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[بما أنني كنت أسافر بكثرة في الفترة الماضية فمن أحد الطرق التي كنت استمتع بها في الطائرة هي أن أرسم الأشخاص أمامي أو الشخصيات في المجلات :P]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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