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And the reviews keep rolling in

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Jawwad

After much arm twisting and threats from unknown origin, Adnan Haider, ex student, fellow judge, old friend weighs in with his opinion on Reboot. It appears that Adnan has been spending too much time with Richard Morgan since he has also started speaking like Takeshi Kovacs. That and I think his new prescription glasses are…

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Remembering Salman

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Jawwad

I knew him as the Dear Salman I inscribed on his copy of Reboot. ZAK woke me up with his post tonight and I found out that he was also a blogger and just like the rest of us, someone as fascinated by life as he was by code. Didn’t have all the details and…

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My new belly button

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Jawwad

Somehow after talking about Pakistan Risk Review and new venture failure and Reboot for the last few months it seems quite odd to a do a post about my new belly button. I mean what would the neighbors think? Here is the scoop. Last Thursday after experimenting with three different families of antibiotics over three…

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A review, a review, my kingdom for a review

Posted on September 27, 2009 by Jawwad

Finally, courtesy of Salman Latif at the Book Review blog, a review of Reboot, Second edition. ‘Reboot – in search for the land of opportunity’ is not the sort of book you usually find on stores. Take a quick walk down the shelve-lanes of bookstores and you’d find hundreds of self-help books with success stories…

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Product placements

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Jawwad

Imran Zia does a totally ingenious product placement for both Reboot and Tell My Story on the TMS Blog. Take the red pill and then press the red button to see the slideshow. The book has started popping up in all sort of interesting locations.

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The Society of Actuaries interview

Posted on September 19, 2009 by Jawwad

Sam Philips interview for the Actuary was the first published review received by BSOD/Reboot. Though a little dated, it is still relevant. Sam also talks about the book in a sidebar

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Pakistan Risk Review – now available on Amazon

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Jawwad

What a great start to a day. Click here to order your copy now. Now waiting for the Reboot title to get listed.

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The 300

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Jawwad

My 300th post on this blog marks a number of milestones. This morning we received our first Amazon Advantage order for Reboot and Pakistan Risk Review. In the next few days as Amazon receives the shipment and updates the inventory it will be possible for you to buy copies of reboot and Pakistan Risk Review…

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Here you go Mohtashim

Posted on August 30, 2009 by Jawwad

Here is my well thumbed copy of Reboot (the book) on my startup bookshelf along with other well thumbed titles. And for those of my friends who have difficulty reading anything other than IBM manuals on Strategy in Bulgaria and Dubai (yes that means you Adnan), this edition also has lots of pretty pictures, at…

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She beat me to it…

Posted on August 28, 2009 by Jawwad

There is nothing to make your day like a taste of good old fashioned mutual admiration society (MAS). And when it comes to blogging to send a little bit of MAS your way, no one does it better than my friend Jehan. Now if only some of my other missing in action friends (yes, this…

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