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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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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

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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30 Days of Blog

Voice-notes III: Why voice messaging is the future[30 days of blog 25]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. After reading the previous parts(part 1 and part 2) of this trilogy, you might think I hate spoken-word audio. Nothing can be further from the truth. I love people talking in my headphones. Which is why I can tell you […]

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30 Days of Blog

The Medium is the Wrong Message: Why voice-notes annoy me![30 Days of Blog 23]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Audio is a ‘hot’ medium. Text-messages are a ‘cool’ medium. Voice Notes( or voice messages) have no place in text messaging conversation. This high-brow media theory is not why voice-notes annoy me, but it provides an explanation. Media and Messages Marshall […]

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30 Days of Blog

How Apple will make money from services[30 days of blog 20]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. Apple will make money the only way it knows how; by exploiting its monopoly position. It will be couched in high-minded pretense of privacy, but it will be dirty. Competing Apple does not like competing. Competition is a fools game, […]

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30 Days of Blog

iMessage is not service, it’s a feature[30 days of Blog 19]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. The title is a bit of a clickbait. iMessage is an extensive, large scale messaging app with supposedly 1.3B active users. On a technical level, it is a ‘service’. However Apple’s business case for building this service and just giving […]

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30 Days of Blog

Technological Debt and the Pakistani Restaurant Industry[30 days of blog 15]

This post is part of my 30 blogs in 30 days series. More details here. The future is grim for restaurants everywhere. David Chang, world famous chef and restauranteur, claims that the restaurant industry will not survive this pandemic. All around the world, restaurants are cutting staff trimming menus, focusing more on delivery and takeout, […]

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30 Days of Blog

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 […]