Blog
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15 Minutes of Fame and Today's Social Media
Pitch invaders at cricket and football matches to social media trolls — how the West solved the attention-seeker problem, and why it still works online.
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Your Image on Social Media
A COVID-era video, a badly overgrown beard, and the worried friend who showed up at my bank counter — a funny lesson in how you come across online.
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Nine Years of Pain: How I Escaped Banking for Freelancing
How I spent nine years trapped in a banking system that is nearly impossible for a middle-class family man to leave — and how freelancing finally set me free.
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A Love Story: FIFA Tournaments, an iPod, and a Thousand Audiobooks
A love story that began in a gaming zone in Hyderabad — FIFA tournaments across Pakistan, a prize iPod mini, and the audiobook habit that never left.
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The 12 Hours I Still Can't Remember
A motorbike trip, a shower, and twelve hours of my life that were wiped from my memory forever.
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Losing Almost $3,000 to a Human Error
A mis-shipped Amazon FBA order, three sleepless nights, a stranger who went far beyond her job — and the shipping policy that has saved us ten times since.
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Better Than Regret: Start Working
Google in 2010, Bitcoin in 2016 — and the lesson that only the lottery happens overnight.