Facebook RPM Interview — My Experience

On the 6th of August, I received an email from the Facebook Rotational Product Manager recruiter if I’m still interested in the role and open for an interview which I said yes. This kickstarted my journey to the heart of the Facebook interview which is three steps; 30-min phone screening Two 45min Product Sense and […]

focus

The problem of focus is the problem of options. When we have lots of options, it dissuades us into thinking we can be whatever we want to be, while that’s true, the reality remains we can’t be everything.

unsolicited advice

I was a part of a student group called Leed Consulting Group which is a part of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leed Business School. And the objective of the group is to build the consulting skills of students by treating business cases and working for organizations outside of campus who might need our services. […]

The Essence of Patience in Building/Growing

Shortly after my break on the farm, one of those lessons I do not know I was receiving through my grandmother (Maami). I move straight to my little farmland which I earlier dropped some pepper seeds, the seeds I got from some of the local dishes we made back home. While surveying my child Farm, […]

Hearable is Not The Future of Technology

The conversation used to be around Wearable technology, and now the next shiny technology is hearable, which seems to be more interesting to me even when I know it is just what it is – another shiny technology! Technology created a new kind of inequality, and this kind of inequality ranges from literacy to semi-literate, […]

Lesson/s from volunteering on Dr Kings Day

Dr King birthday was last week Monday, and I was involved in a volunteering experience at a middle school in Lafayette which is just a couple of miles away from Boulder. While this was my first time volunteering in the USA, it was not my first volunteer experience as I have many of it back […]

Culture, Technology, Development and the Underserved Societies

Cultural values and beliefs are passed on from one generation to another and as some of our readings for the class explained, modern technology alone will never be able to turn around an economy. Majority of the failed development projects in ICTD also have some knowledge to pass in these regards. Some of them documented […]

Reading comments on Youth and Development

The most exciting readings for me are the reading on redefining education in the developing world, and this is mainly because I can relate more to it. When I was in my 3rd year in college, a colleague asked me a question that “what if we eventually finish this statistics degree, where do you think […]

What Works in Development – a Critical Look at Avaaj Otalo and its Relevancies in Kyrgyzstan

Agriculture is the primary source of income to the farmers who contributed to almost all economy of the people who live in the not easy to reach region. According to FAO[1], more than 3billion of the world population lives in the rural communities and these people, who are roughly 2.5billion derived their livelihood from agriculture. […]

Reading comments on Power of Faith to Help End Extreme Poverty

Having watched the World Bank “Power of Faith to Help End Extreme Poverty” with the questions and observations that come with it, I think the route of religion will be quite hard/tricky to follow. One of the panelists said religious organizations should be seen as a development partner who is more than a channel to […]

A Report on Religion and Development

In the hear our voices – the poor on poverty video, the video was able to feature some poor people and the challenges that the video referred to as the reason why the world poor are still poor are as below; Insecurity Lack of opportunity and Powerlessness. As a part of the most critical observations […]

Youth, Technology and Development; The Way to go – A Report on the 2017 World Bank Youth Summit

The event I went for was a two days event by the World Bank on “Youth Summit for Technology and Innovation for Impact”. The event featured many industry experts from both inside and outside of world Bank while it also runs different workshop in parallel depending on what the interest of the participants are. As […]