Last weekend I have watched Top Gun Maverick, regardless of the emotion and action filled movie, my attention was toward something else, it was more about executing strategies and what qualities do Executives need to fulfill their targets, there will be spoilers ahead. I will jump to my conclusion of…

On Twitter Laila was asking an interesting question about regrets we learn from And that was my answer Back and forth we came up with 7 questions, here are the questions and my answers Why compliance is bad, isn’t being agreeable something good and people crave? Compliance means allowing ideas to follow in without control, when you admire someone for…

Yesterday I had a fantastic time hosting an episode of “Essam Cafe” with Shadi Mokhtar. — We talked about design, art, Egyptian designer struggle, and the value of working together as a team. One of the interesting points that Shadi talked about is where does design start? And the impact of changing the organization’s order, for instance, what comes first, is it creative and art? is…

This is blog post is co-authored with Mouneer Rabie — The famous story of a study done on London cab drivers and how their brains wired to optimize their daily job; how their spatial memory and processing are advanced. It is like the map of London streets is imprinted in their heads with all information of places, shortcuts, traffic patterns…

Thoughts on Satellite imaging and remote sensing in agriculture episode with Khaled Al-shamaa and Drones Episode with Moahemd Tayseer — In the last eight days, I have had two interviews for my podcast “Essam Cafe” the topics were so interesting and exciting to me, and I have learned a lot (it is like going back to school). The first topic was about Satellite imaging and remote sensing in agriculture. In…

Thoughts on Gulnaz K. Episode about Fashion, entrepreneurship and mental health (Check it out here) — I started a Podcast in 2020, it is about life, talking with and learning from people; last week, I have interview Gulnaz K. talking about so many topics, learning from Gulnaz K..’s expertise in the fashion industry; here are some highlights from the episode Garment size is a big problem. I consider my self minimalist when…

This blog post is co-authored with Mouneer Rabie We know about curse of knowledge where one who knows assumes that others are likely to know what one knows, even though the majority of a random sample would not have that knowledge. Curse of nerds is the illusion that most nerds…

** Update, Dave McClare published something similar to this post http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/10-challenges-for-emerging-market-startup-ecosystems ** ** Disclaimer when I say we/human/they, I am not generalizing, it is simple substitute for the word “most” ** This is 100% my opinion from where I stand, many will not like it so please if you have…

All what I am going to say is doable and I am not sure if someone already did that or not but this is how I think about dating in year or two. I think in couple of years lot of people will start using more and more of the…