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زهرة وزهرة من نفس البستان—مذكراتهم، يومياتهم، فلسفاتهم ورحلاتهم، أؤلئك الذين مشوا على هذه الأرض وتنفسوا هواءها.
خرافات وأساطير وقصص مصدّقة ومحل شك، ما نقوله عن أنفسنا ويقوله الآخرون عنّّا
مراجعة بعض الكتب التي انعزلت لها منذ زمن.
Shut your eyes, and look again, the whole world has gone upside down.
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The naughty journalist in me. These are long articles with a little more effort than a shutlogue.
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Autobiography is still my favorite genre, crime, courtroom and a little bit of politics
Book reviews for this year
Reading books was never, and shall never be a favorite activity. But reading is a must, there is no doubt about it. I have placed myself in challenge mode back in 2012, and ended up reading 27 books. This year I placed myself in the same mood to just scan and read. Here are some of the books I read, and my take on each.
Autobiographies, crimes novels and some old political novels. Here is my 2022 list of books reviewed.
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The Racket: A rogue reporter vs the American empire
By Matt Kennard. Book review
How the American empire uses its power to make its billionaires from around the world wealthier
How a journalist decided to go against the American empire.
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Crazy at Work, Atomic Habits, and Purple Cow
Why self-help and business books remain largely subjective
Business and self-help books offer a lot of subjective opinions and blinded perspectives, yet they are the easiest to read and scan through. In this article, I quoted three of these popular books.
A quick review of Atomic Habits, Purple cow, and It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work
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Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities
By Daniel Golden. Book Review
This book is written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Daniel Golden about the underworld of espionage in the least expected place: academia.
How academia has become the center of foreign and domestic espionage—and why that is troubling news for our nation's security.
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
By JOHN CARREYROU. Book review
This book is about the rise and dramatic fall of Theranos. About the idols of Silicon Valley.
A review of a book about the rise and dramatic fall of Theranos, and the idols created in Silicon Valley.
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
By Svetlana Alexievich. Book Review
The book is a collection of short autobiographies of tens of ex-Soviets, before and after the fall of the USSR.
The book is a collection of short autobiographies of tens of ex-Soviets, before and after the fall of the USSR.
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El Infierno: Drugs, Gangs, Riots and Murder: My Time Inside Ecuador’s Toughest Prisons
By Pieter Tritton. Book Review.
Pieter is a English guy, who went into the business of drug trafficking between Europe and South America, and eventually been caught and placed in a prison in Ecuador.
This book is his own words telling the story from the time he was caught till released into Britain some 12 years later.
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مقدمة ابن خلدون
كتاب العبر، تلخيص سريع
كتاب العبر، وديوان المبتدأ والخبر في أيام العرب والعجم والبربر، ومن عاصرهم من ذوي السلطان الأكبر، لكاتبه العلامة ابن خلدون يقع في سبع مجلدات، كتب عام 1377، أكثرها شهرة هو المقدمة، حيث يجمع بين العديد من العلوم والأخبار وأحوال الناس والطقوس، حتى اعتبر ابن خلدون مؤسس علم الاجتماع.
هذا أحد الكتب الرائعة التي أنصح جميع العرب ان يقرؤوه، وعيبه الوحيد الإطناب والإسهاب الشديد، وهي الصفة السائدة في كتب ذلك العصر.
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The Peter Principle
By Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull. Book Review
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence
A book review of: The Peter principle. Written in 1969 yet still very much valid. The first commandment in a hierarchical life: the hierarchy must be preserved.
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زهرة وزهرة من نفس البستان—مذكراتهم، يومياتهم، فلسفاتهم ورحلاتهم، أؤلئك الذين مشوا على هذه الأرض وتنفسوا هواءها.
مراجعة بعض الكتب التي انعزلت لها منذ زمن.
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Autobiography is still my favorite genre, crime, courtroom and a little bit of politics
Autobiographies, crimes novels and some old political novels. Here is my 2022 list of books reviewed.
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It's Not Technical Debt, It's You
Perhaps our Software Development industry is one of the rare industries where the tools of the trade can define the trade itself, what is used to do the job ...
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The Racket: A rogue reporter vs the American empire
How a journalist decided to go against the American empire.
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Keep calm and ship
Why building small apps with a long-term mindset is a bad idea
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The Journey is inevitable, baggage optional
Why building small apps with a long-term mindset is a bad idea - Part II
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Why building small apps with a long-term mindset is a bad idea
Creating a minimum viable product for a startup is a skill that is quite lacking in this world. I will share some stories and my two-and-a-half cents.
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The year 2022 in one word, one more word
Here is yet another article, though I read no other one, about the year 2022 in lines.
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Crazy at Work, Atomic Habits, and Purple Cow
A quick review of Atomic Habits, Purple cow, and It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work
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Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities
How academia has become the center of foreign and domestic espionage—and why that is troubling news for our nation's security.
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