Personal Experience

Clarify and Organize — GTD

In my previous blog post, I discussed the first step of GTD -- collect everything. In this post, I will…

7 years ago

Capturing everything

As mentioned in my previously blog post, the first thing you need to do when implementing GTD is to perform…

7 years ago

My personal productivity journey — the beginning

A couple of years ago I was promoted to head of the Computer engineering department in my university. Before that,…

7 years ago

Making hard decisions

As you climb up the corporate ladder, you are forced to make a lot of unpopular decisions. You have to…

7 years ago

In support of an unpopular economic policy

There seems to be a near consensus that the twin policies of floating the Egyptian Pound and cutting subsidies were…

8 years ago

Why computer engineering?

I work in a university, teaching computer engineering, and I've been struck by the fact that many new students and…

8 years ago

Pests, pests, everywhere!

OK, the summer season is coming to its slow end in Egypt (it will linger on for some months, but…

8 years ago

Thoughts from the garden

If you've been following my social media posts you will probably know that I was bitten by the gardening bug…

8 years ago

Netflix vs OSN

A year or so ago there were no rivals to OSN. If you wanted to watch new movies and TV…

9 years ago

The singularity: Evolution or Mass Suicide?

I've recently read a book on the so-called singularity, the point in human development when our science would have reached…

12 years ago