2023 Week 2 – No Logo

It’s been more than twenty years since No Logo was first published. I finally read my copy more than a decade after purchasing it, during which it travelled with me as I moved between four cities in three countries. Had I read the book then, it would have been a revelation. Reading it now, I …

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2023 Week 1 – Resolutions

I don’t recall the last time I made resolutions in a new year. As far as I can remember, I never have.   Although TBH, my memory doesn’t stretch much beyond the past 6 years. Parenthood transforms the way our brains are wired. Definitely for the better, because it doesn’t leave much space for anything …

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Ramadan Mubarak 1442H

This time last year, I had been discharged from the hospital and had spent 2 weeks in isolation waiting for my “double negative” test results. By then, all I wanted was to be home in time for Eid. Looking back, there is so much to be grateful for. The gift of life, of being with …

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2021 | Week 10

There is a series of three lectures by Clayton Christensen which he delivered at Said Business School a few years ago. In the first one, unsurprisingly, he discusses the theory he is best known for: disruptive innovation. The second talks about management and the panda’s thumb – practices which were developed because they may have …

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2021/Week 9

Bill Gates has released his green manifesto in the book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster”. I haven’t read it yet and I am fairly confident that I won’t be able to come around to reading it either, but there’s enough on the internet to know what he wants. The key premise he talks about …

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