December 2011
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“Another test you can use [for finding the work you love] is: always produce. For...”
– Wish I had seen this Paul Graham essay years ago: How to Do What You Love. A must read.
Here is to making “always produce” my resolution/motto for 2012.
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The Magic of Give Kids the World Village
(the following is a conversation I overheard between my 9 year old daughter and my wife Asma)
Maaria: Are you glad we convinced you to stay here [to Give Kids the World Village]?
Asma: I actually am. I was worried that seeing sick kids was going to effect me. But here the kids are so happy unlike when we would see them at the clinic [where Sereen would get her chemo]. And that makes everybody...
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Symmetry
“I don’t want to tell anybody. Tell your parents, tell your sister. Nobody else.”
My wife had been adamant from the moment we had heard from the Make-A-Wish Foundation that our application had been approved and Sereen was going to get a wish granted. The Oncologist had encouraged us to do it very early on in Sereen’s chemotherapy regiment. “These wishes are not...
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