why you are building what you are building? why are you here? How is it going to led you to your ultimate purpose?

This is your story, write your story, what's your why?

Print out your why statement and stick it on your desk/wall.

Every time you face a blocker, read it out loud.

Founders’ Fitrah session by Hisham Jafar Ali

save your time, use templates from https://vercel.com/templates/next.js

I should set up my self-study schedule again. Here is what I plan to study in the upcoming months:
- TS
- Unit testing
- Py for backend apps
- Vue

Startups might fail, talents don’t fail

You don’t get married until you incorporate

Here is the plan:
1) Fajr
2) Study
3) Work on side-projects
3) 11am - 5pm Tamara
4) evenings - Arabic/Ice skating
Sleep before 10:30pm

“No excuses” by Brain Tracy (ch 13)

- Think before you act “Is this the best use of my time?”

- Taking up a new task requires discontinuing an old one. Ask “what do I have to stop doing in order to start doing this new task?”

- Every evening make a plan for the upcoming day: write 5 top priority tasks

- Think about consequences: what will happen if you do/not do this task?

- Never do a lower val task if you have higher value task undone

- Stop multitasking, focus on 1 task 100%

“What can I, and only I do that if done well, will make a real difference?”

There is only 1 answer to this question that only you can answer at any given moment.

You raise to the height of the problems you can solve

Problem solving step-by-step:
1) Define the problem clearly “What is the problem, actually?” Get everyone involved agree on the definition of the problem before solving.

2) Is this a problem? Some things like inflation might not be solved, instead should be adapted.

3) What else is the problem? The more ways you can define a problem, the more likely you are to come up with better solutions

4) What are the causes? If a problem re-occurs, the system is broken, solve the problem at its root

5) What are all the possible solutions? The more solutions you find, the better chance of solving it.

6) Whats the best solution? Think about complexity, time, efficiency. You might not need the perfect solution, but the fastest or easiest solution

7) Make a decision. Always ask, what’s next?

8) Assign tasks. Make smb responsible. No responsibility -> no results

9) Define clear acceptance criteria for the tasks

10) Reward. The biggest reward is to be able to solve bigger problems, achieve bigger achievements

Every large problem was once a small problem that could be solved easily

Earlier in my career I had a late dinner with an older partner, and asked him to give his brutally honest career advice for someone in their 20s - 40s.

I thought his advice was short but sweet, and I still reflect on it now.

Here are the 3 things he told me (shared here anonymously):

1. Leave the days stresses at work - don’t bring them home. No one at work cares that much, but your family will remember that you didn't give them enough attention.

2. Put your hand up for new projects/tasks, even if you don't have a bloody clue how to do them, because this is where you grow. This is how I became a partner.

3. Be your own advocate - no one cares about you as much as you do yourself. People are always happy to help, but you have to:

a) Be a really genuinely nice person so they want to help you (basic psychology).

b) Clearly ask for help when it is needed. Only if you ask, you will receive, otherwise no one will know.

And that's all 3.

What are some of the best ever advices you received?

Feel free to share in the comments below, I read every comment!

I'm sure we can get some gems that everyone benefits from.