Murukami had the effect on me that I had expected Rushdie would: it feels like a new post-Murukami world. Kafka on the Shore is an incredible story playing out on multiple planes of imagination, using very few characters, and without leaning on complex concepts or historical props. It’s supposedly his weirdest work, but it didn’t […]
This is the type of book I’d like to write. Commonplace observations, earnest thoughts, raw storylines. “Model Town” by Bilal Hasan Minto will prove to be a timeless classic.
Hamza Akram Qawal and Brothers from Karachi performed at the Stanford Memorial Church. What an incredible experience.
I was invited to speak about product management at NIC Islamabad by Integry.
I’ve attended Product School events in the San Francisco Bay Area and Buenos Aires. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that they also have a chapter in Lahore. Their local organizer, Haseeb Raza, reached out on LinkedIn and asked me to speak on a trip to Lahore in 2019. Product School talks in SF […]
Bill saw all the chess pieces all the time, because he had the luxury of not being on the board. This line stood out the most for me in #trilliondollarcoach because it reminded me of the concept of the balcony in Ron Heifitz’s Adaptive Leadership theory. He defines it as “getting off the dance floor […]
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman, aka Mr. Basic Income, is a historical perspective on inequality and what we need to do to fix it. Open Borders and UBI. Cancel out the birth lottery. If you haven’t, hear him speak at Davos:
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