Startups, Tech & Life

This is a short one. I just finished writing  On life and death. And living up to your potential  and this made me think. I talked about my auntie Ghada after 13 years; for the first time. I have mentioned her at times; to the people who didn't know her. But I just realized I never truly opened myself about it and about what I learned that day in 2007. I really just want to focus on what her own son taught me the day we lost her. He taught me to love myself. I never forgot that strong message. Love yourself! He said, and for 13 years it still resonates in my head. It was in 2007, and that year I was preparing for my high school official exams. I was angry, I was upset. At everyone, at everything. At life. At unfairness! I mean how could that have happened? It was so sudden! No one expected it! I remember I was studying that day, on our roof. Our roof was my basecamp. My sister tried to deliver the news as smoothly as possible. My other cousin Rani (not her ...

Hello beautiful people, Today we lost a soul; a beautiful soul. This is life, this is how it has always been, and this how it will always be. We're all just passengers in this world. We all come once and go once. Some of us with a mission, some us without. Some of us leaving a trace, a beautiful trace of that short passage on earth. A short passage it is if we take into account the life of this world; 4.543 billion years. This is an infinite number of lives, an incredible number of civilizations that have risen and fallen. This my friends is not a poem, this is not literature. This is just a wake up call for all us. To all those who need it; and we all need it every now and then. This is a wake up call to everyone to question how many of us are living every day a hundred deaths. How many of us are navigating through their existence and missing on life. Forgetting to really breath, forgetting to see the light. When those beautiful souls are gone, we need to remember th...

Hey good morning! It's been a week already since my last post  Keep moving. Do not lose momentum . We have a lot to catch up on and there's so many more discussions I'd like to have with you. But before that I thought I'd talk a bit more about myself and my journey. That would give me a bit more credibility and would show you that I usually try to practice what I preach. So today I'll be focusing on my first 2 years as a Software Developer.  how I got my first job in London. The start - Moving to London: 11/11/2013; I will never forget this date. The day I started my first software development job in London! After having studied in Lebanon and few months after having graduated from the Lebanese American University. 5 months to be exact; I graduated on the 13th of June 2013. Here I was now in London. But how did I get here in the first place? What brought me here? Well it's a nice story, we could say it was sort of spontaneous in a way. Obviously ...

Good afternoon dear reader! Having heard some good feedback about yesterday's post  Uni life, uni days. The intro , I woke up this morning and started writing the natural continuation that would cover different years at uni. Unfortunately half way through I wasn't feeling the flow anymore and decided to save it for later. I really just want to write whatever I feel like and whenever I really feel like. I really want it to be natural. What brings us to this post 👌 This afternoon I was walking my dog (her name is Princess 😊) and I got an idea for a new post. I opened my notes on my phone and wrote down the title (yes I'm taking notes about all ideas that I feel I should write about. I currently have over 56 topics to write about). I put my phone back in my pocket and continued walking Princess. few minutes later, I open my phone back and start adding some extra notes related to this post. Without even feeling it, I had the post almost ready. me walking Princess. I ...

Good morning dear reader! 2:23am right now. Unusual early start for me, but that's cause I went to bed early. Anyway waking up at this time and knowing it would be hard to go back to sleep, I thought 🤔 what better than starting to write about uni days. University; that's one of the many topics I'm interested in writing about. This is after all one of the main chapters in my life and one of the main reasons I'm coding for a living today. My first time on the Byblos campus First day: This is how it all starts.. First day at uni; I can still remember it like it was yesterday. This is the day where a bunch of young high school graduates meet for the first time. This is the day that so many of us have been hearing about for years! We've been hearing about it being bad, we've been hearing about it being good. Some people warned us and told us how scary and how hard it would be. Some others said "Nah! You'll just be fine!...

System.out.println("Hello World!"); Hello World! Welcome to my blog. A space for stories, personal opinions and views about: Startups, Tech & Life! Reader: excuse me, I didn't quite catch your name. Me: Oh sorry, did I forget to introduce myself? I'm Jad! Nice to meet you :) Reader: and, if I may ask, why is it that you decided starting this blog? Me: excellent question! Thanks for asking! Here's my story: I'm a Software Developer with 6+ years of experience. I have lived for most of my professional life in London. I actually moved from Lebanon to the UK straight after graduating as a Computer Engineer. Reader: oh! Lebanon?! Are you Lebanese then? Me: haha yep. I bet you love Lebanese food, isn't it? And, actually I'm half Lebanese half Belgian. So to answer your question about "why this blog". It's been years I wanted to blog and share my views and stories. Mostly I have always wanted to talk about wha...