#Courses

A favorite quarantine pass time is rewatching all the Disney princess movies. A take on Disney princesses as academics. #1 Princess Jasmine was definitely an ethnographer. She met Aladdin ‘in
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My first job out of engineering school, I worked at a startup. We repositioned a product from a lightweight personal database to an embeddable database for mobile devices. Our growth
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From Perai to Brisbane to Oxford on both @CheveningFCDO & @WeidenfeldSchol , thread below to help those interested decide whether they want to apply for Chevening. Applications open now! Link:
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It's August; my classes begin 3 weeks from today. I've decided it could be interesting to share a slice of what I'm doing and thinking about my work as a
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This is essential reading, but it isn't news. In 2013, @BobEaglestone and @kovesi1 called it. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/english-why-the-discipline-may-not-be-too-big-to-fail/2008473.articleI was working on employability at the
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TL;DR: Do the things others tell you are impossible!@nelly_ans & I at 23 & 24 raised $1.4M for @TheEdlyft to disrupt who becomes an engineer.1/ Our raise began days before
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Oh boy, time to open myself up to a firing squad in twitter. So, I just read Biden’s proposed legislation for nee gun control. It’s... bad. It’s terrible, actually, but
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Four years ago I jumped into the world of self-employed life as a designer and never looked back. It hasn't been easy process and I did it with making mistakes
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I haven't done one of these in a long while but the gym inspired me.This one will be quite different from all the other ones.I'll dedicate this one to all
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We are Polymaths//THREADED//The world is becoming integrated.Those of us who can absorb this unification will thrive.(1/10) Polymaths are the source of some of history's greatest contributions.Newton, Descartes, Aristotle, Galileo, Leon
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This evening my mom, Skai Varkalis Ahern, died in NYC. She survived infection with COVID19, but she never recovered enough to leave a hospital bed. She died after developing a
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A story of low & high expectationsThe moment I was born, white society had low expectations for my lifeMy mum had high expectations on me, to not fulfil white ppls
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Looks like the guy who claimed PMJT is lying needs to look in the mirror. https://twitter.com/profamirattaran/status/1331315170715398146 The reason we don't have the manufacturing capacity is b/c of Harper and Mulroney.Made-in-Canada
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A THREAD: LINKS TO RESOURCES TO UNDERSTAND SYSTEMATIC/SYSTEMIC RACISM AND OPPRESSIONIf you are uninformed on the topic, it's okay. Take the time to learn, especially if you don't understand what's
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After working as an understudy @jackbutcher for a month, I have learned a lot. I have also just completed both courses.Today, I am going to reflect on some of the
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7 truths that most people forget.[thread] 1. Happiness comes from pursuit of a goal, not achievement of a goal. What we’re really after is the transformation from doing the
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