Disclaimer 1: I am talking about changing jobs and not companies. A job is what you do in your day-to-day, ~10 hours a day.
Among all the generational shifts that have affected the job market in the last 10 years, I believe that the frequency of changing jobs every 2–5 years is one of the most profound ones, and from what I have seen so far, this shift is going to be the norm thanks to Generation-Z.
However, so many people I have met are still afraid of changing jobs often believing that future employers would brand them as weak…
First, I know. I am not the first one to call it but it seems that the general public is still not aware of it enough. Yes, banks are dead, not a physical death but more like a brain death. The body is still alive, it is hooked to machines that keep it breathing, organs are showing symptoms of shutting down while a lot of people are trying so hard to save it.
The analogy is brutal, but let’s face it, banks had it coming since the early 2000s, they quickly moved from being a deal facilitator and a boring…
Most people in the developed world get their first bank account once they turn 18, and some, earlier than that. Having a bank account has become a necessity and even a human right in some places. Also, having a bank account and actively using it can prove very useful for the account holder, the bank and the country as a whole. As a result, getting a bank account shall be as easy as possible and as affordable as possible so that we can maximize the number of people who have one and can afford to maintain using it.
In order…
Every now and then, I find a LinkedIn or Facebook post of someone in Morocco literally ranting about how bad their banking experience was when they needed to close an account(my case, for another post), order a new card, freeze a card, get cash on the counter, unfreeze their mobile access or just set a pin for their card.
Everyone thinks that it’s just a fact of life that banks are sh*t as if we need banks while banks don’t need us. However, that’s just not true because if we think about it for a second, banks would be nothing…
As of last week, e-scooters are legal in Germany, as a result, a bunch of startups have landed their scooters all over the city.
For context, Berlin already ranks among the best European cities when it comes to availability and access of public transportations. Both, the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe(BVG) and Deutsche Bahn(DB) offer a range of options to take you from any point A to point B in the city and even outside to surrounding towns.
My own experience
When I moved to Berlin four years ago, I was already impressed by the easiness and affordability of transportation in the city; however, that feeling…
During my high school years, I read almost every edition of Al Massae newspaper and was always looking forward to Rachid Nini’s column “Chouf Tchouf”. Now, almost 10 years later, most of my newspaper collection was used for window cleaning at home and I no longer read Moroccan newspapers…
Rachid was pretty much the only relatively independent journalist I knew back then. I know a lot of people wouldn’t agree with that statement. However, when a journalist starts getting sued, have their accounts frozen and gets pressured by advertisers, you know that their work was pushing the right buttons. …
Lessons and moments from MIT-GSW 2014
On a Tuesday morning, I received an email from the MIT-GSW organizing team informing me that I got the African scholarship to attend the MIT-GSW 2014 held in Marrakesh, Morocco. I was so happy and excited about it. However, I had no idea about how it is going to be and the people I would be meeting in few weeks. As a result, I started looking around for people who got the same email as I did and started looking on social media using the #MITGSW tag. I forgot about it for a while and then it started hitting…
Abdellah
Moroccan, Berlin based human with a deep interest in using technology to do good things including giving bankers a reason not to sleep…
