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Why I’m Focusing on Learning, Not Launching This Vacation

 What I have going on right now: I'm bored during the vacation, and I don't know what to work on. What I had planned for the vacation was one of two things: Look for a job using my portfolio site Work at any startup or side project, like TaskLoop Applying for jobs in vacation I've tried applying to a couple of projects on freelancers.com, and for me, seeing the very, very small percentage and small probability of being accepted makes me feel like this is so fuckin boring and I can't do this. Also, I talked with Mohssen, and he told me that he applied to not less than 20 companies to get a job as a backend developer, and he couldn't find any. So that made me realize that I am willing to learn , launch , and work on small changes and projects and get feedback early, rather than applying for a ton of jobs, getting rejected, and not even getting noticed. Working on my side projects in vacation But here I faced the second problem: TaskLoop , as a project, can'...

Bored on Vacation

During vacation, college students usually fall into a few categories. Doing Nothing Some do absolutely nothing—just binge-watch movies and series at home. Others go out a lot, hanging out with friends, gossiping, and playing games like cards or dominoes. Rarely do those convos get serious about the future or anything meaningful. Another version of “doing nothing” is going to the beach or parties—if you’ve got the money. It’s technically unproductive, but at least it’s fun. Working and Thinking About the Future Then there’s the second group: people who spend their vacation working for someone else in any kind of business, or those who focus on self-study. Let me be honest—self-study is boring as hell. And going out with the same people doing the same things also gets boring fast (unless it’s the beach or a party... then I’m down). I’ve already tried most of these things. I’ve done the gossip, the hanging out, the games. I’ve also done self-study. At one point, it was fun—especial...

Talking risk and then getting nocked down

I took the risk of starting a student club 4 weeks before the final exams. I started painting the vision of the product and the value I’m delivering through this student club. I created a website and launched the new program GDG Build as a part of GDG on Campus ECU club for the goal of building an environment where talented students meet and work with each other to win hackathons or start a real startups. I had to deal with a lot of content creation for the website and a lot more for the marketing. Creating posts, outreach, designing the logo, searching for a co founder to help me with this, and meeting with the dean of our faculty, all of these were part of the things I had to do in a week in order to find the people I wanted for the club. Now with only three weeks left on the final exams, I still have to do a hackathon I decided to make to help evaluate the experience and level of the students applied for the program. In addition to the club there is something I completely forgot, wh...

Keeping Good Employees On Board

 1- Pre-onboarding(their first day) Tell them what they should expect in the coming weeks with a timeline(maybe via email) Contents of message: - when they should expect their next email - what they'll be expected to do - when they'll get a schedule of how their first week gonna look like 2- Mistake: there is little communication with the manager Talk to them twice a day for the first 2 weeks minimum. Once in the morning for 30 mins and once in the afternoon for 30mins (You help them answer their questions) After 2 weeks you talk to them once a day for a couple of weeks, then twice per week then once per week. 3- Mistake: not enough structure when onboarding There should be an hour-by-hour agenda for the first two weeks. This structure should facilitate their learning. Tell them why they're gonna do what in the structure. 4- Mistake: No clear expectations 30, 60, 90-day goals What are the most important things that you want them to accomplish within that amount of time? A- ...

Types of employment

في وجهة نظري فيه نوعين من الموظفين وبيختلفوا من حيث امتي نوظفهم وندفعلهم قد ايه وهيحتاجو تدريب وللا لا النوع الاول: توظيف موظف قليل الخبرة قابل للتدريب النوع دا بييجي بعد ماتتقن جزء معين في الشغل وبعدين بتكون عايز تشغل حد معاك علشان تزيد الانتاجية فتتحول انت من انك بتعمل الشغل بايدك لكونك مدرب بتدرب الزميل الجديد انه يعمل نفس اللي انت كنت بتعمله بنفس الاسلوب المثالي اللي جاب معاك نتيجة بنفس الخطوات.  وبعدها بفترة حين يصبح الزميل الجديد موظف قديم وصاحب خبرة يتحول هو من موظف الي مدرب ليدرب الزملاء الجديدون وتتحول انت الي صاحب شركة فقط ولا تحتاج الي التدخل في العمل لكي يتم انجازه النوع التاني: موظف خبير اما في بقيت المجالات اللي في شركتك اللي انت مش احسن حد فيها بتحتاج تشغل زميل احسن منك في المجال دا وهيفيدك وهيفيد شركتك وده بيحتاج دخل اكتر بكتير من الشخص قليل الخبرة اللي انت هتدربة

Deep Work

 part 1: Deep work is valiable الأشخاص الذين سوف ينجحون في ظل عصر الآلة: - العمال فائقو المهارة - الأشخاص المتمكنون من العمل مع الآلة - اصحاب الأعمال القدرتان الأساسيتان لكي تصبح واحدا من هؤلاء ولكي تنجح في الاقتصاد الجديد: 1- القدرة علي اتقان الأشياء الصعبة بسرعة 2- القدرة علي الانتاج بمستوي متميز، يتناسب مع الجودة والسرعة تعتمد القدرتان الموصوفتان سلفا علي قدرتك علي العمل العميق (2) why deep work is valuable? 1- Learn complex stuff. 2- To succeed you have to produce the absoluet best stuff you're capable of producing. High quality = Time spent * Intensity Focus part 2 : Work Deeply القاعدة 1: العمل بعمق "You have a finite amount of WILLPOWER that becomes depleted as you use it through out the day" Deep work philosophies  - The Monasic philosophy of deep work Scheduling عمل عميق طوال الوقت - The Bimodal Philosophy of Deep Work Scheduling اخذ يوم أو بعض الأيام من أجل العمل العميق - The Rhythmic Philosophy of Deep Work Scheduling عمل عميق بشكل روتيني في وقت محدد في اليوم أ...