Running a small business is difficult. No one ever said it would be easy. You sleep less and work harder and that is the part you actually enjoy. Everything else is a struggle. If your small business is a technology company it just upgrades your nightmares to a different class – your personal nuclear reactor…
And here we go again…
Can’t keep an alchemist away from food for too long. Since July and August are birthday treat and new hire months at Alchemy, we have had an exceptionally wild week. Early this week was the 18 pie pizza party thrown by Sarang, Hammad and Mussadiq. Which was quickly followed by Arif’s kunnah (an exotic north…
State Bank raises discount rate by 100 bps
SBP raised the key discount rate by 100 bps this afternoon. The market is expected to take the smaller rate hike positively with yields on treasury bills and PIB heading lower. 6 month KIBOR this morning had declined to lower level after yesterday’s meeting with Bank Presidents. Interbank rates are expected to slide lower in…
PASHA Career Expo Today
Once upon a time in an industry far far away, there were only four technology companies, only one programming language and a single half way decent computer science program. That was once upon a time (two and a half decades ago) in an industry far far away. Today at the PASHA Career Expo, more than…
I hope you dance…
I still remember Lee Ann Womack singing these lines in Virginia in 2001. To the special child in my life and the many special children out there in others. Thank you for teaching us in months what we would have never learnt in an entire life time. I hope you never lose your sense…
PASHA Study out on paper
After 18 months of joint effort by two consecutive Central Executive Committees and an outstanding Pakistani origin consultant in UK, the PASHA review of software industry is out in print. A soft copy of the executive summary is available here. Printed copies are available from the PASHA secretariat at a small cost. Built on the…
400 short of 100,000 hits
December 2006 is when DesiBackToDesh moved from blogger to its new home on WordPress. I had started blogging in October 2004 and at the time of the move had been posting infrequently (some things never change) for about 2 years when the big move happened. In those first two years we booked 14,000 hits on…
Thank you Naeem and Imran
To this day about 20 years ago I was introduced to two coaches of Pakistan Railway’s track and field team. Naeem and Imran, who thought me everything I know about running and endurance. Twenty years later when a thirty seven year old overweight, out of shape, father of three outpaced and out endured a young…
The last lecture screening at Alchemy
Today at about 12 pm we did a snap screening of the last lecture. It sort of served as an office warming party, an orientation for the most recent member of the Alchemy team and yet more free food. Some of us had already downloaded and seen Randy’s performance at CMU. This was a chance…
Now playing – Old songs to make you cry…
Superman… I can’t stand to flyI’m not that naiveI’m just out to findThe better part of me I’m more than a bird…I’m more than a planeMore than some pretty face beside a trainIt’s not easy to be me Wish that I could cryFall upon my kneesFind a way to lieAbout a home I’ll never see…