Akram Ahmad @akramsoftware

I'm a software developer: #distributed_systems. I am also a writer: I post essays regularly to my popular website at the link below ❤️ programming-digressions.com Austin (Texas) Joined August 2014

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Akram Ahmad @akramsoftware

3 years ago

Thoughtful comment by a brilliant mathematician, which I came across recently, thanks to @acangiano!

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If you think this new essay is (only) about programming, I invite you to please suspend your belief, and join me in reading this exploration of how to go about keeping the fun in programming, and in work (in general.) ⛵ programming-digressions.com/2022/06/how-no…

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Akram Ahmad @akramsoftware

4 years ago

I cordially invite you to check out a (tech) vision that I've laid out for the future, one informed by all (the techie things) that I have learned over the years ⛵ programming-digressions.com/2021/10/a-visi…

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Akram Ahmad @akramsoftware

4 years ago

Thanks a lot for the warm words!

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5 years ago

Thanks a lot for the warm words!

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Akram Ahmad @akramsoftware

5 years ago

A paperback edition of my book is now available on Amazon. My copy arrived yesterday, pictured here, standing as it is on the shoulders of giants ☃️

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Akram Ahmad @akramsoftware

5 years ago

Slow working our way out of the snowstorm here in Texas... ☃️programming-digressions.com/2021/02/macro-…

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Akram Ahmad @akramsoftware

5 years ago

It is with joy that I share with friends here my very first book, at these coordinates 🏹 amazon.com/dp/B08W4QXMRN/

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Akram Ahmad @akramsoftware

5 years ago

Don't let the word "meme" throw you off (in case it came across as esoteric.) Memes are (much) closer to you and your life than you may first think. Here's the scoop 🛵 programming-digressions.com/2021/01/meme-w…

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Akram Ahmad @akramsoftware

5 years ago

#dataanalytics #ideasmatter I invite you to start exploring (and profiting) from a deeper understanding of the connection—and it's a deep nexus as you'll see—between the varieties of data that are the new currency of our post-industrial world. programming-digressions.com/2020/10/the-va…

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Akram Ahmad @akramsoftware

5 years ago

#innovation #creativity programming-digressions.com/2020/09/some-l… Two words, timeless advice: "Embrace change." Those words of advice are from a trusted friend. And this brand new essay is my take on the intimately-related notion of motion. Remember, too: "Writing endures."

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Akram Ahmad @akramsoftware

5 years ago

programming-digressions.com/2020/08/superc… The enterprise of brewing ideas (with which to power your next great invention, innovation, etc.) is—or at least should be—within the reach of us all: Here's one take on how to foster exactly that kind of mindset in the service of such an enterprise.

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Akram Ahmad @akramsoftware

5 years ago

programming-digressions.com/2020/07/the-3-… 📬 My hope in sharing this essay is that you will find (substantial) value that you can use in a principled way, on a daily basis ⏰

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Akram Ahmad @akramsoftware

5 years ago

#creativethinking You are bound to find something of value in this brand-new essay. It's all about putting creativity to work for you, every single day: programming-digressions.com/2020/06/creati…

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Akram Ahmad @akramsoftware

5 years ago

Visit programming-digressions.com/2020/06/an-ana… to find everything you ever wanted to know about the world's 10 most interesting magazines 🦒

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Akram Ahmad @akramsoftware

5 years ago

Something in this for everyone 📫 programming-digressions.com/2020/05/the-ta…

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Akram Ahmad @akramsoftware

5 years ago

programming-digressions.com/2020/05/the-ta… 🌩️ Whether it is your True North that you are after or the Northern Lights, I cordially invite you to check the lights of creativity in this brand-new essay 🔦

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Akram Ahmad @akramsoftware

5 years ago

An awesome book, by @matryer 🥇 Not to be missed!

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Akram Ahmad @akramsoftware

5 years ago

I ❤️ this book and, for inspiration, I dip into its pages from time to time. Yes, it's that good, and a model of how a tech book should be written 📗

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Akram Ahmad @akramsoftware

5 years ago

For sheer inspiration, how about we hold on to this thought, aiming for it in our mind's eye ➡️ "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see." 🎯 ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

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Akram Ahmad @akramsoftware

5 years ago

mitpress.mit.edu/books/coevolut… Getting my name into a brand-new book from The MIT Press—check the Acknowledgments section—gives me joy, of course. But the real deal here is the gripping story of our times, told inimitably by Edward Lee, the author of this brand new book!