Shafique Memon 🇨🇦 @samemon

Toronto Joined February 2009

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Zaigham Khan @zaighamkhan

2 months ago

Must Watch: Pakistan- the land of seven rivers

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Mark Carney @MarkJCarney

9 months ago

We’re buying Canadian, and we’re building Canadian.

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A young person recently asked me what I look for in people I'm hiring and what skills and habits I think are most important to cultivate if you are to be successful in your career. Here's a brief summary: No matter where you work, develop: 1. Ownership – Don’t say “this isn’t my job.” Don’t think about “your task.” Get the whole thing done. 2. Emotional and mental fortitude – Don’t scare easily, don’t run away, learn to deal with being overwhelmed. 3. Perseverance – Don’t expect wins quickly. Keep at it. 4. Humility – Don’t claim, show. Earn respect with your actions; don’t demand it with your words. 5. Relationship orientation – Be amongst people, in the thick of the action, make friends, stick with people, be loyal, be helpful, be friendly… Learn to encourage and persist. Don’t follow scripts. It is off-putting to see people weaponize the mechanics of relationship building. Be genuine, be real. In the technology industry in particular: 1. Ask yourself if you love what you are doing and are willing to be consumed by the love of your art. If not, do something else. 2. Focus on first principles. Don’t be a framework monkey. 3. Read a lot. Write a lot. Explain a lot. This is how you learn. 4. Computation holds the secrets to the universe. Keep asking “Why?” “How?” until you discover them. 5. Write a lot of code, build a lot of things. Build for work. Build for play. Practice makes perfect.

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Amir Husain @amirhusain_tx

a year ago

It was an incredible honor and personally very meaningful to deliver the commencement address at The University of Texas at Austin earlier today. youtube.com/watch?v=_XqTNk… /1

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Amir Husain @amirhusain_tx

a year ago

Quantum computing isn’t just an emerging technology, It’s a ticking clock for modern encryption. As stability improves, today’s cryptographic safeguards become tomorrow’s vulnerabilities. /1

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Amir Husain @amirhusain_tx

2 years ago

In an article for @Forbes, I explore how AI, automation, and offshoring are reshaping the global labor market. The future of work is being rewritten—here’s what it means for you: forbes.com/sites/amirhusa…

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Bishontherockz @BishOnTheRockx

2 years ago

[THREAD] I've grown up listening to Richie Benaud's cricket commentary. Adored the way he respect the value of pause, never trying to steal a moment, always being subtle, dignified and measured. But this thread is about his amazing ability to read the game and tell us. 1/

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Osman Samiuddin @OsmanSamiuddin

2 years ago

So much 🔥 all through from Pankaj Mishra, not least this. nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

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Amir Husain @amirhusain_tx

2 years ago

It’s that time of year again, so here are some of my 2024 reads… and one I wrote.

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Osman Samiuddin @OsmanSamiuddin

2 years ago

Yaar baat suno, this is SUCH a good and fun piece on the Naseem-Agha partnership and their convo. Outstanding from @rameenwhile grassrootscricket.pk/the-stumps-hav…

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan

2 years ago

Mangi got that hostility because he is a brown Muslim. We have normalized Islamophobia in this country; especially in Washington DC. Shame on those Senate Dems - Joe Manchin, Jacky Rosen, Catherine Cortez Masto - who helped the racist GOP block him.

Jennifer Bendery @jbendery

2 years ago

ICYMI: In the entirety of Biden’s presidency, no judicial nominee endured more GOP ugliness, more unwarranted hostility, than Adeel Mangi. And he never even got a vote. He wrote to Biden on Monday to lay out how broken the judicial nom process has become. huffpost.com/entry/adeel-ma…

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan

2 years ago

Blocked Muslim Judicial Nominee Decries Senate ‘Smear Campaign’ - The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/12/16/us/…

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Shafique Memon 🇨🇦 @samemon

2 years ago

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Amir Husain @amirhusain_tx

2 years ago

40,000 Gazans killed. Total population of Gaza was 2.1M. 2% of the population has been wiped out, many more maimed. To put things in perspective. 2% of the US population would be ~ 7M people. It is truly killing at an unimaginable scale.

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Justin Trudeau @JustinTrudeau

3 years ago

May it always be with you.

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Terry Fox Foundation @TerryFoxCanada

3 years ago

#OnThisDay - March 9, 1977 After receiving a diagnosis of osteogenic sarcoma, Terry undergoes surgery to amputate his right leg six inches above his knee. 707 days later, Terry began training for his own run, The Marathon of Hope. #NoMatterWhat

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Habibullah Khan @Huk06

3 years ago

This is not up for debate

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Fascinating @fasc1nate

3 years ago

Terry Fox was a cancer patient who ran 5,373 km across Canada in just 143 days before he died. Terry thrilled the entire country. His goal was to receive one Canadian dollar for every Canadian in the population (then 24 million people), and he achieved his goal by raising 24.17 million Canadian dollars in February 1981. A year after Terry Fox's death, the Terry Fox Foundation was created, which promotes amateur races across Canada and in several countries to support the fight against cancer. According to the Terry Fox Foundation, more than C$715 million has already been raised for cancer research on Terry Fox's behalf.

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Amir Husain @amirhusain_tx

3 years ago

. @Zaib_Husain & I were delighted to visit Alif Laila Book Bus, an educational NGO that has provided Maker Spaces, libraries & schools to 2M+ children over the last 46 years. We hope our small gift of tablets, computers, robots, science & rocketry kits will inspire 1000s of kids!