When we spoke in April last year, I told you I had left tech to join a restaurant, pivoted it online, and was now “finding our place in that (new) normal”. I was both new to the service industry, and to Toronto (and still am!). Three months later, you probably saw me on Business Insider […]
Author: Asim Fayaz
“Boys Will Be Boys” — Sara Suleri
If you thought the Canoli women were unnecessarily hung up on English, wait till you read Boys will be Boys by Sara Suleri. So eloquent, yet so prickly.
TechStory: Chopaal and TPI
I spoke with Amir Siddique on his new podcast, TechStory. It was meant to be a wide-ranging conversation, but it turned out to be a candid deep-dive on chOpaal. It’s mostly in Urdu.
“I’ve had a pretty good year. And you?”
Mind over body = 15km!
Right up with all the other firsts of 2020, I’m going to remember this as the year I got into running. And after countless 5Ks, I finally broke the mind barrier. Posted on Strava.
Remembering Inus
Inus’s bike wheel got stuck in the TTC tracks, he fell, and got hit by a car. We rode together last month. It could’ve been me. Please look out for bicyclists when driving, and don’t park in bike lanes. #zerovision
LUMS Class Endowment Fund
Your undergraduate program makes a step-change impact in your life. I was lucky to go to Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan’s top university, but few are that fortunate. In order to help one deserving student study at LUMS every year, my BS class of 2010 raised PKR 14 million and setup an endowment fund. We […]
Birthday ride
It took 32 (and COVID) to realize that I don’t need to buy, or have someone make them for me, to have brownies (after an 80km bike ride) for my birthday. DIY. Have it all Y.
My nani used to joke that I like bhindi (okra) so much that I can even have two weeks old bhindi (and I did). It felt great to make it myself. #achievementunlocked #ladyfingers #comfortfood
I “CAN sail”
Achievement unlocked #quarterlifecrisis #sailing