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Business Basics: Free Cash Flow[30 days of blog 12]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Free Cash Flow(FCF) is an accounting term, with the formula “Cash Flow — Capital Expenditure”. In layman’s terms, Free Cash Flow at any given period is all the cash you have left over after you have paid all your current dues. For […]

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An Example of Technological Debt from my daily life[30 Days of Blog 11]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. I came face-to-face with the problem of Pakistan’s technological debt, just a few days ago when I went to a petrol pump to fill my car up. I asked the attendant if the POS machine was working any said yes […]

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Business Basics: Network Effects[30 days of blog 10]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Network Effects are a powerful way to create a competitive advantage and scale your business really fast and make your business unstoppable. Businesses that leverage theses can scale exponentially with each customer gained. I am shocked everyday to see how […]

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Coca-Cola is not your friend[30 days of blog 9]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. You have seen this story before. There’s controversy around a social media platform or a social media personality. And there is huge uproar in the media. Pressure groups start boycott campaigns against all the companies advertising on that platform. The […]

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No! 1 in 3 pilots in Pakistan is not operating on a fake license.[30 Days of Blog 8]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Information spreads, very fast on the internet and misinformation spreads like wildfire. I saw this headline not just on the usual news channels but also on the first page of reddit, one of the top headlines on Hacker News, BoingBoing […]

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There is no Right Side of History[30 days of blog 7]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. There are constant calls, especially of Western left, to be on the ‘right side of history’. The contention being that history is a true, objective moral judge. This is a myth. Historical acceptance is subjective; your view on who’s the […]

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COVID19 and The Crisis of Leadership[30 Days of Blog 6]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. It is a common occurrence to hear that everyone will get COVID. From Self-styled Iconoclasts shock jocks to Business Leaders to health officials to world leaders, have either stated it in so many words, or have downplayed further spread of […]

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Neeva is not going to save us from the Google Monster[30 Days of Blog 5]

Neeva is not going to save us from the Google Monster[30 Days of Blog 5] This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Recently, a former Google executive launched a search-engine startup Neeva. Neeva will differentiate itself from competitors by charging a subscription fee. It has raised $37M and […]

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Use Google Sheets as a Database with Python[30 Days of Blog 4]

  This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Are you a small business with less than 20 employees? Are you using google sheets, but want to move to a more robust IT solution? Why? You can just use Google Sheets as a database for a simple CRUD(Create, […]

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Pakistan’s Technological Debt[30 days of Blog 3]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Pakistan produces 20,000 engineers and IT graduates every year. It has the 10 largest connected audience in the world, with 76 Million people with a Mobile or Fixed broadband internet subscribers. Yet somehow digital technology is missing from both public […]