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Finding Product-Market Fit for Upscale, South Asian Cuisine in 2020

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 […]

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Non-Fiction

“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.

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chOpaal

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.

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Plants

Coleus

“I’ve had a pretty good year. And you?”

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Running

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.

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Biking

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

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For Good

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 […]

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Biking

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.

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Cooking

Bhindi

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

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Sailing

I “CAN sail”

Achievement unlocked #quarterlifecrisis #sailing