Mateen's Personal Blog
It has been six days since the internet shutdown and ban by the regime in Iran. I will post this whenever the connection becomes stable and available, if it ever does.This article is not a complaint about inconvenience. It is a record of what it feels like to live and work under a system that routinely and continiousely cuts you off from the world and then acts shocked and asks why you are falling…
The past few months have been challenging to say the least. During tough times, I find it hard to pour time into my personal projects. However, I started pushing through last month and decided to go back to working on my personal project, Memorabilia . Although it’s a bare minimum project at the moment, it is living rent-free on my mind. One of the paths I decided to go for in this project…
Why am I writing about this on a warm evening on my day off? As I talk with my friends in the industry about our work, why we are satisfied or why not, there is a common particular pattern I see amongst most colleagues of mine. This started feeling like a pattern when I started noticing that colleagues from the biggest corporates and startups, not on the same level but eventually, have the same…