THIS IS IMPORTANT.

Unfortunately, you might not be prepared to hear it now, but social distancing is here to stay for much much more than a few weeks or months.

There is valid research for this statement.

As long as just one person anywhere in the world has this virus, as long as we do not have a vaccine, as long as we develop some level of immunity to it, we will keep having recurring spikes of cases. As long as we keep having few weeks of ‘social distancing’ every few weeks, (depending on which country you are in) we should be able to keep it at a level where hospitals are able to keep their ICU bed availability at a decent level.

So how should companies and entrepreneurs take charge in the ‘new normal’? …

Dear Bangladesh,

Desperate times call for desperate pleas and this is mine.

The government is doing what they can with the limited resources they have. However, I am not convinced that we, the general population should simply be keyboard warriors and complain about this. Just like small pockets of the population are doing what they can to help the immediate neighborhood, we must come together with a feasible solution.

HERE IS MY PROPOSAL

I am looking for top ranking engineers, decision makers and developers -> people in Grameen, Robi, Banglalink, Teletalk and other cellphone operators where we can help by quickly using cellphone data to track Covid-19. …

If you are working in the data world, you know the basics already — bad data causes enterprises millions of dollars and productivity is reduced, but that is just the top of the iceberg specially for data driven companies.

Low data quality is cut-throat to the organisation when customer centric services are what drives the revenue. Reputation is affected, customer satisfaction is low, reference customers goes down and eventually impacts your organisation to hit those numbers. Furthermore, low data quality affects key decision making. A good example are airline operators — who often determine what kind of loyalty programs to issue their current and potential customer base. The bad data quality of such customer centric views will cause managers to not trust the data they get and eventually be hesitant to approve the business case. …

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- Quand : le 21 septembre, 19h
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- Sinouhe Monteiro: cofondateur @ Ewala (www.ewala.co). …

I own nothing.
I owe nothing.
I have no desk.
I have no privacy.
I have no money.
It resides in bits and bytes.
I have created one failed company.
I do not have my own company.
I am mentoring two “startups”. I hate using the word “STARTUP”.
I got hooked to FinTech. I am looking for co-creation.
I learnt front end web-development and bootstrapping.
By mid of 2017, I’ll have completed 2 postgrad certifications — Stanford and MIT.
I have replaced all my lamps to energy-savers. Best Investment EVER.
I invested in Blinkist subscription. You should try it. I make informed book purchase decisions.
I have not yet read the Hitchhiker’s guide to galaxy in full yet. Probably that disqualifies me from being a nerd.
I am thinking of eating fried insects more often. Unfortunately I am carnivorous still. I like grasshoppers more than worms. They taste like fried chicken.
I write online. My paper notebooks are lying empty.
I have no post-its, I do post-it on Trello.
3 of my six closest friends are in three different continents. We do skype to keep in touch.
I have a fernweh and I visited 29 countries. 12 alone this year.
I have cut off on negative people in my life. I have counted 3 this year.
I started practicing and learning to play guitar.
I am working for one of the fastest growing companies in Belgium. I have a learning environment and awesome colleagues.
I deleted my facebook timeline. I am 30% more productive now with my work.
I have learnt how to keep my desktop clean. Mac I mean.
I stopped looking at people’s social posts as a measure of their happiness. Everyone is fighting their own wars. …

It keeps coming, from Buzzfeed to Forbes, from Huffington Post to Guardian. Everyone has a say about resolutions 2016.

There are many different topic-wise resolutions too, like Running, Swimming, Travelling etc.

Last night I spent quite a while contemplating about life. My life. My resolutions. I looked back in 2015 to see what resolutions of 2015 have I managed to succeed in and what failed.

Resolutions 2015 completed:

1. Work for a highly innovative semi-startup company. (Update 2015: I have been working in an extremely innovative data governance company called Collibra since August 2015. Love waking up to my job almost everyday.)
2. Incorporate a company in Bangladesh. (Update 2015: I incorporated CRC — CritiCare Research Centre with my brother as one of the directors. He will be mainly handling the health projects back home while I oversee the recruitments and the technology aspects). …

A few failures aside, the Elon Musk led company has firmly moved into the mainstream in the ever growing private space travel industry.

SpaceX, might soon get to carry its first military payload to space thanks in part to poor relations between the United States and Russia.

It may be also used to bring back dead satellites back to earth.

Reusability is generally unheard of when it comes to rockets. After a launch, the rocket is often considered useless. It’s served its purpose of launching a spaceship and now we move on but if it was possible to reuse rockets or parts of rockets, it would be a major money and time saver. Could this be a start of a new era? I think so. This Falcon 9 landing gives a very clear blueprint for the future of reusable rockets. …

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. –Thich Nhat Hanh

Today I become 28.

Funny thing is it is a taboo in my culture to be 28 and still “not sorting out her life” according to the uncles and aunties who suddenly have a major concern for you being still single and unmarried.

I have to admit. I live in two realms. One where I am in Belgium, alone, completely independent with the freedom to do whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, slowly growing my career path and doing what I love doing with innovative people. …