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I'm reading a book called _The Coaching Habit_ so I can coach my team better and specifically make my 1:1s with them more productive. While reading, I came across a quote by Peter Block who defines an adult-to-adult relationship as one in which you are ab

I finished reading SPQR by Mary Beard a few months back. In this overdue post, I share things that are important to keep in mind when casual history nerds like myself read about Roman history and ancient history more generally. ## No maps or formal dating

I recently learned about the Doorman Fallacy and couldn't help but connect it to an experience I had last weekend. The Doorman Fallacy is 'the mistake of assuming technology can replace a human without consequence'. This past Saturday, six of us had an im

I recently got suckered into subscribing to NYTimes because I wanted to read an article behind a paywall and I couldn't find an easy and quick alternative. I didn't mind the $2.00 a month. But I took offense to what happened after I paid. Over the course

Rental car insurance is broken in Dubai. After being the victim of a hit and run, I believe there's a business opportunity to make it better. ## Hit and Run I recently rented a car to play host during a family visit. Being my first time driving in Dubai,

On Feb 24, 2026 we started to see a rise in user complaints saying they're not receiving our emails. They all had one in thing in common: Microsoft as their email provider. Since I'd never encountered this before, my first reaction was to check my Sendgri

In early March, due to the unexpected war in the ME, I was contemplating my next move. Should I stay or leave? Flights were still taking off from Dubai, albeit at a limited frequency. Enterprising car rental companies were offering package deals to wealth

Shipping new features for users and watching them gobble it up is the greatest Joy of being a coder. I quit my day job to bootstrap a SaaS to maximize this Joy in my life. I didn't expect Joy to wane and wither away by year 7. While it's been supplanted b

This title may seem tongue-in-cheek in a world where seldom a day goes by without hearing a friend, colleague, or a viral post touting how AI saved them hours, if not days, of engineering work. In fact, just this week a friend humbly bragged to me about h

There's a cafe I go to for my daily midday tea breaks. It occupies a street corner where you place an order through a window while peering into a kitchen slightly bigger than the size of a food truck. It sells a small cup of kadak chai for 1.50 dirhams. A