A decade ago, this date in 2024 would be so unimaginable and futuristic, that it is hard to imagine how the world would be, compared to 2014. Yet, here we are. The world seems familiar, and a lot of things are like we imagined, but much too differs from our imagination. I still remember that…
At the end of last year, I set a reading challenge/aim to read 54 books in 2023. This was based on my logic that I could read and finish one book each week, which accumulates to roughly 52 books yearly. Just for fun, I added two more books to that and it became a target…
Alhamdulillah I just passed my driving license. I would love to say that it was a breeze, but actually it wasn’t. It was nerve wrecking. The roads in the UK are small and tight, with cars park along the roads. It also didn’t help that I decided to take the test for manual driven car,…
About a year ago, a connection on Linkedin messaged me and asked whether my Masters was worth it, since he was thinking of doing the same course. I answered him then, but thought to myself that I would write a longer one. So here’s this long-coming post trying to answer the question. First of all…
When I started working in the railway industry, during the first few weeks, I was told that the metro system I was working on was GoA4. Alright, I thought, this is GoA4. Whatever that means. Over the years that piece of information becomes embedded and is accepted as the universal truth. One of the first…
“What do politicians want?” a speaker asked an audience once. “To get more power,” came the answer. The crowd laughed. The speaker nodded, “Yes, you can argue that. They want to be voted, to stay in power.” This memory stayed with me because at that time, I thought it was a vile thing to want,…
I was invited to give a talk recently, similar to this last year, and was tasked or asked to ‘motivate’ the speaker. To avoid boring them to death and lecturing them, I decided to give a parable. I think it’s quite interesting so I am sharing it here. There are two towers, one is more…
Recently I went for demonstration of a technical product for my company, and the audience was university students, a mixture of people that are either expert in the signalling field, or have no experience at all in it. Since the spectrum is very wide, the presentation aim to glance over almost all the aspects, including…
My daughter has a tendency to complain, a lot. Especially if she finds something to be a bit difficult and she didn’t want to do it in the first place, i.e. it was a task set either by her parents or teacher. She’ll huff and puff while complaining that it is so hard! I’ll then…
It’s been the news these days, with the turmoil and takeovers that is going on in OpenAI. Most people won’t be familiar to them, but might be instead familiar with their app/product, ChatGPT. We will see in the future how the saga unfurls. Regarding AI, people are putting a lot of hype on it. It…
