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Human Behavior Technology

Empty Platitudes Plastered on Important Men

If it is the text that matters, then why lie about the source?

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Uncategorized

The Truth is a Dour Mistress

Ignorance may not be bliss, but the truth can be taxing.

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How to Build a Search Engine Technology

How to Build an Egalitarian, Decentralized Search Engine Part 1: The Principles

Search is dead. So how do we revive it, without billions of dollars in funding and massive computing resources? We leverage the crowd.

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Technology

Search is Dead

Almost anything you need can be found online, its just hard to find. Because Google has shifted from being a Librarian to an Oracle.

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Rants

The time a podcast interview made me lose sleep

The narratives Nation States propagate are the basis of culture. Pakistan’s culture is based upon vacuous, stupid, and intellectually dishonest narratives. And there is no hope.

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Rants

Rant: Pakistan needs functional apps before Super Apps

Pakistanis tech businesses are tripping over themselves trying to be Super Apps, but have yet to master their core competencies.

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Year in Review 2020

Year in Review 2020: Reading

The books I read in 2020, and other things.

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Year in Review 2020

Year in Review 2020: Exercise

Physical activity is very important. But not at the expense of your happiness.

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Year in Review 2020

Year In Review 2020: Identity & Time

Rewiring your identity is rather difficult.

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Isolation Diaries

Dispatches from Post-Isolation: Things I Didn’t Know I Missed in Isolation

“There are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones.” ~ Donald Rumsfeld