Reading Time: 2 minutes I will try from now on to write short posts about new things I learn or find interesting. This time, the interesting thing I found was that video of a Lecture by Dr. Marty Lobdell about how to study in an effective way.
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Customer happiness
Reading Time: 4 minutes Originally posted this on Medium in Oct 2014 Customer happiness is one of the most interesting areas I give a lot of attention to, and it goes hand in hand with the area of Managing Company Culture. I used to lead the customer care efforts at my first startup and I learned a lot from that,… Continue reading
Perfectionism, revisited!
Reading Time: < 1 minute I was complaining today about how I get distracted while listening to podcasts. I’m not a person who can just freeze for 30 minutes or more to do nothing but just listen to a podcast. My eyes will automatically try to find something else to read. I used to feel guilty each time this happens. Still… Continue reading
They don’t buy, as they don’t trust you
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you’re running an e-commerce business or selling any kind of product online, I hope that you already know the main reasons stopping people from buying from you. As a consumer, and someone who enjoys talking to random people about how they use websites and mobile apps. I tend to always hear the same thing from people… Continue reading
My experience using Easy Taxi in Egypt
Reading Time: 4 minutes Easy Taxi, a new taxi ordering service available in Egypt (mainly Cairo). I think the service started in Egypt in August 2013. Ogra, the Vodafone and Sawari Ventures backed company was supposed to hit market first, but they didn’t yet. Easy Taxi is available in 20+ countries and expanding rapidly powered by $32 million in funding…. Continue reading
How we decided to use Mongo instead of MySQL
Reading Time: < 1 minute I got a question recently from Sadek my new colleague at Eventtus about why we did decide to use MongoDB instead of something like MySQL, especially that dealing with Mongo is hard if you’re used to the use of things like Joins in other relational DBs. Luckily we had a 2 years old internal email… Continue reading
Gender equality, misunderstood
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m living in a country at the far north-eastern corner of Africa, called Egypt. we are a mix of cultures. we’re Pharaohs, Africans, Arabs, Christians and Muslims; all in one. One of the hot topics you would see Egyptians talking about a lot recently on Facebook and twitter is sexual harassment. Like 30 years ago,… Continue reading
Investing in the mental health of your team
Reading Time: 3 minutes I stopped watching football games like ~6 years ago when I was starting to realize that sitting on the couch doing nothing but watching a 90 minutes game is a waste of time and I can spend that time instead with my new addiction .. my computer. Before losing interest in following football games and news,… Continue reading
Late new year’s resolution
Reading Time: < 1 minute I’m 2 months late to put a new year’s resolution but the idea hit me couple of hours ago. I was thinking about how to reorganize my life and plan forward for the coming few years, but I remembered that I didn’t even write a new year’s resolution since 2008. anyway, better late than never. so… Continue reading
Introduction to MongoDB [PHPMaster]
Reading Time: < 1 minute This is kinda old news for some of you. My 2nd PHPMaster article was published like a month ago but I forgot to write about it here. This time it’s a step by step introduction to using MongoDB in PHP. In this article I’ll introduce you to NoSQL with MongoDB. You’ll learn how to install the MongoDB… Continue reading