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Notes

Notes on “Increasing Pakistan’s Exports”

Notes on Last Week’s episode of the podcast Pakistanomy. They are as is, so bare with the typoes

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Book Summaries

Lessons from “How to Read a Book” by Mortimer Adler

Reading is an art and a science. Most of all it is an active pursuit.

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Somethings

Weekly Wisdom 22/11/20—The difference between Law and Justice.

Also, on Kindness and the answer to the question, ‘Is the media really “over-woke”?’

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Writing

The Shape of Ideas

Or why am I starting a personal blog in 2020.

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30 Days of Blog

My best, worst, and other posts[30 days of blog BONUS!]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Hello Everyone. I finished 30 straight days of blogging last week. The goal was consistency. Follow this thread to see which on my writings were great, which were not, which were hits, and which fell flat. The Best Piece The Best […]

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What Narratives define Modern China[30 Days of Blog 30]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Cartoon from 1899 depicting world powers cutting up China China is the world’s largest country by population, 2nd largest economy by GDP and has the second highest expenditure on military in the world. Yet why is the rest of the world […]

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Who speaks English[30 Days of Blog 29]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. English is as much a lingua franca as the world as ever seen. There is no right English pronunciation of any word. In England’s Green & Pleasant Land The Anglo-Saxon people were really good at conquering. Not just land, but the […]

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Humanity Lives For Trash[30 days of blog 28]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Consumer society turns households into a vessels for trash on the path to their destiny. Mass-production is just an engine to produce trash. Our oceans are just warehouses for trash, where it is becoming larger than most islands. Our idols’ […]

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Another 300 Words[30 Days of Blog 27]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Photo by Matthew Henry from Burst Hello. I have run out of ideas again. This was a monumental undertaking to begin with. I am this close to finishing and I am not giving up. This is the 27th day of this […]

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The Internet will be Balkanized[30 days of Blog 26]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Eventually the open web will be killed and the internet will transform into hundreds of national and thousands of regional networks. The governments of the world wouldn’t have it any other way. In the beginning Before the internet, information was […]