Abdurahman

Progress at all costs We all want progress in our lives, we want to be on the next level in our professions, skills, and business deals, but we rarely talk about what is holding us back. What is our main bottleneck in reaching the next level? Let’s explore the idea of a bottleneck and what … Read more

That’s all we need to do in life, just be 1% better and the 1% can compound into amazing things in the next couple of decades. The 1% better can take many different forms, one of them is just showing up.  Time scales, iteration, and speed There are different time scales we can discuss here, … Read more

Dollar vs Bitcoin A recent bet by Balaji on the dollar going into hyperinflation is a classic example of binary thinking. In fact, lots of Balaji’s thinking is binary, Bitcoin will take over the dollar and will become the currency. But I think we underestimate how much people would still prefer the matrix over the … Read more

I am toying around the idea of slowing down on purpose, taking time to not rush things but to do them slowly, to tell the brain, hey I am not in a rush, I want to do it slowly, I am not eager to rush on to the next thing. Whatever I can do by … Read more

I always sucked at to-do lists, I always had an issue with procrastinating on chores, obligations, etc. While I was listening to some podcasts someone mentioned bullet journal and I thought, well could this be the one thing that will work for me? And I am simply impressed by how simple it is but also, … Read more

Journaling? I’ll spoil the secrete right now, it’s called Journaling. The best thing you can do for yourself is to journal. It will not only perform better then ChatGPT 5, it can really give you solutions to problems that are unique to your own situation. When you journal you are actually sending prompts to your … Read more

Know what you don’t know I have met in my career a couple of exceptional engineers who are just moving at such a fast pace it’s very difficult to comprehend. And when I look back at that, the underlying trait that all of them share is this honesty about how little they know. They know … Read more

Compound effect We all know that the compound effect takes time, but do we? Are we willing to put in the work, be invisible for the next 10 years, but come out as an expert in one area at the end? We usually don’t think about such a long time frame, we can barely stick … Read more

Why One of the biggest problems I see in junior engineers is the fact that they don’t invest enough time in reading and exploring the SDK documentation for whatever library/framework/OS they are using. I was in the same boat when I started my career, and the main reason I was not doing this is that … Read more