Ahmed Bilal

Charity, Social Responsibility and Common Sense

February 16th, 2009

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How do you alleviate suffering on a local and global scale?
How do improve conditions – security, living standards, health care, education, economy – in your country and in other countries?
A fundamental principle of human society is our responsibility to our fellow man – to aid, collaborate and generally work together for the betterment of society [...]

Blogging is NOT ‘Writing’

October 26th, 2008

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Defining ‘blogging’ is like explaining ‘God’ (without the likelihood of ensuing bloodshed) – every blogger and non-blogger has their own idea of what ‘blogging’ is (and every believer, non-believer and fence-rider has their own idea of what ‘God’ is), and they’re all wrong about both.
When you can’t agree on what something is, it’s time to [...]

Stupidity Training

September 16th, 2008

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From another book I was browsing through today:

Start Running

September 13th, 2008

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From a book I’m reading:
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a [...]

84-year-old preacher with 86 wives and 170 children, WANTS MORE

September 11th, 2008

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Mohammed Bello is 84 years old. He’s a maulvi. He has 86 wives, 170 children and lives in Bida, Nigeria.
Apparently his neighbours are a little upset with his lifestyle. They’ve painted it as a religious issue but surely the sociological and psychological aspects are far more fascinating? Anyone?

Ignorance is bliss…

August 31st, 2008

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It really is…
The ignorance we’re familiar with is the kind where YOU not knowing something allows you to be happier than if you had that knowledge. It holds true in a variety of cases, like how you’re happier the second before you’re told your parents left everything to your sister and nothing for you in [...]

Exponential Growth

August 29th, 2008

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Exponential growth is a simple and powerful idea. A good way to learn about it is to watch this series of videos.

Are you asking the right questions?

August 20th, 2008

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You already know what you need to know in order to do what you want to do.
It’s just a matter of asking yourself the right questions…and doing what you should be doing.

I guess I’ll keep walking…

August 19th, 2008

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xkcd.com

Sheepwalking – an epidemic gone wild

January 26th, 2008

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An idea that I’ve been trying to drill into the minds of my friends and acquaintances is what Seth Godin calls ‘sheepwalking‘.
Sheepwalking:
“The outcome of hiring people who have been raised to be obedient and giving them a braindead job and enough fear to keep them in line.”
It’s not so much that this term and its [...]

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