Diary of a silli-mazing human
Just someone who loves to build things... and talk about them... or anything I find fascinating 🤪
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The Stranger's Answer I Can't Stop Thinking About
⎯ ❤️4I walked briskly hoping I could make it to the building before the designated start time. I wanted to be able to pick a seat of my choice. As I hurried past the greeters at the door, I knew I was late. The loudspeakers on the corridor echoed the welcome speech. I walked speedily up the stairs composing myself quickly as I got to the hall entrance. There was no back door. This meant everyone saw y…
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The Mamba Mentality: Never Stop Learning
⎯ ❤️👏🔥3Sometime ago, I wrote this piece about Kobe Bryant and how I have been dissecting his past interviews. I dropped a hint back then that a deeper dive into the Mamba Mentality was coming, and the timing couldn't be better. The Mamba Mentality is a relentless pursuit of excellence, and striving to be the best version of yourself every single day. It is built on a few core tenets, but today, we are go…
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I Did That Shit: The Boring Bits
⎯ 👏❤️4Last week, I ended the post at the exact moment any reasonable person would have continued. Yes, I know. Yes, it was wicked. No, I am not sorry. If you came here today expecting a neat 7-step routine, a secret supplement stack, or a heroic little story where discipline always defeats desire, I may disappoint you. This story will play you no plays, offer you no offerings, and sell you no secrets. I…
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I Did That Shit: My 2nd DEXA Scan
⎯ 👏🔥😂5Putting on weight is not envied. In fact, many women go on diets, starve themselves mercilessly and engage in strenouos exercises, just to prevent that from happening. This of course is why I wasn’t shocked when the radiographer treaded carefully by asking me “Do you have any issues with weighing more than you do now?” before proceeding to tell me that I needed to put on weight if I had any chance…
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Feelings Don't Get A Vote
⎯ 👏2A woman is madly in love. She tells her friends, her family, anyone who'll listen, that she could never live without this man. The next morning, she finds bombs in the basement. A map, too, marked with his next target. The man she couldn't live without? Turns out she can't live with him. The one thing I've come to know about feelings is that they cannot be trusted. They shift the moment our infor…
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What would Kobe do?
⎯ 🔥1I stumbled upon a goldmine lately, and I've been consuming it like it's candy from a candy shop. I don't know why I'd use candy as an example here, seeing as I totally detest candy — Häagen-Dazs is my Achilles heel. I digress. So what's this goldmine? It’s a collection of Kobe Bryant interviews. In one of them, the interviewer asks him: "There are two kinds of players — those who love to win, and …
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The Science of Self-Preservation
⎯ 👏❤️🔥5Growing up, sacrifice earned you a badge of nobility. If you grew up religious, you learned that putting others above yourself was proof of love and piousness. Was someone hungry? Give them from your food. Was your food really little? Share it anyway. You'd be doing the noble thing, and that was proof of how much of a better human you were becoming. As noble as these teachings were, I've come to r…
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Hard is ok
⎯ ❤️2Few people hear that something is hard and run toward it. A few like David Goggins hear the word and get pumped like a kid who heard ice cream was being delivered. The rest of us do hard things to prove something — that we're good enough, that we're not weak, that we're worthy. Or we do them because we want the reward, and hard is just the tax. There's a saying where I come from: everything is har…
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Be The Bad Guy!!!
⎯ ⎯ ❤️👏🔥10 Nobody wants to be the bad guy, and that's exactly the problem. I'm becoming increasingly concerned by something I've noticed everywhere — in friendships, workplaces, and business relationships. People are deeply, almost pathologically, averse to confrontation. Not conflict for conflict's sake, but the basic, decent act of telling someone the truth. A friend doesn't want to hang out anymore, so in…
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My Psychic Kiosk
⎯ ❤️👏5I've said it before. You didn't believe me. That's fine, I'm used to it. A little over a month ago, I mentioned I might be a little psychic. You scoffed. Or maybe you just kept scrolling. Either way, you did not take me seriously, and that's on you. Because last week, I almost walked straight into a Dunning-Kruger moment — and I didn't, because apparently my future self had already warned my past …
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Your Brain Knows When to Stop (And It's Lying to You)
⎯ ⎯ 👏🔥❤️6 If you were an attentive student in secondary school, you'd remember the scientific method: observation, hypothesis, experimentation, and conclusion. My science teacher used to say there was a 5th step — the "Fact" step. The idea being that a strong enough conclusion, tested enough times, eventually graduates into fact. I'm not there yet. But today, I'm walking you through how I arrived at a conc…
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Give Me Back My Holidays!
⎯ 👏❤️2I feel like at this point, if you’re an ardent follower of my posts, you already know a lot about my childhood. One thing you may not know though (well, now, you would), is that I grew up in a very religious country. The beauty of this? Public holidays! Oh! We observed every single Muslim and Christian holiday. So it didn't matter what your religion was (or wasn't), you benefitted. Good Friday, Ea…
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So Sure, Yet So Wrong
⎯ 🔥👏❤️3It was the middle of the night. My feet were turning cold and my chest continued to tighten. I couldn't understand why the bare memory of something that happened over six months ago would elicit such a reaction within me. Why did it feel so bad to have been… wrong? I needed to get to the bottom of this. So, as a self-proclaimed scientist, I began to come up with my hypothesis. In class, when you g…
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Being A Good Person Is Not Enough
⎯ ❤️2A young lady says "I can never date a short man. I'm just not attracted to them." What about Lionel Messi? you ask. And the awkward face twitching and stammering begins. "Uhm, ermm, you know, actually…." And honestly, this never surprises me. That's because I believe at our core as humans, we love impressive people. Here's where it gets uncomfortable though. You'd think that when impressive people…
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I Messed Up... Big Time
⎯ 👏🔥3It's 2:07 pm. I'm deep in the middle of a thousand things and fixed on an unsuspecting bug I think I just might have discovered. You know the type no user has ever reported, but reading the code, you just know something ain't right. I'm trying to figure out what's so suspicious about this piece of code and the next thing I hear "Grrr, Grrr", my tummy rumbles again. Appeasing this impatient tummy i…
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I Found the Perfect Man. Now I'm Terrified
⎯ 👏🔥5It was Sunday morning and I had just woken up. This was meant to be like every other day — until I got a beep on my watch about my heart rate. I picked up my phone to check the charts for a better view and lo and behold, my resting heart rate had decreased over the last 5 days. "Interesting," I thought to myself. What could have happened in the last 5 days to prompt this? What was different? I wen…
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The Brutal Truth: Your Job Doesn't Love You Back
⎯ ❤️🔥3I'm going to be honest — this is hard even for me to say, especially as a founder. But I've come to terms with this truth, and I think you should too. If you're a high performer at work, there's every likelihood you're working long hours, pouring your life into it, and doing your absolute best to make sure things run smoothly. There's nothing wrong with that, as long as you have the right expectat…
