
How My New Site Ranked First on Google
There's no single secret. There are things you do right from the start: the stack, the hosting, the files, and the words.
Whatever I feel like writing about. The web and the code behind it most of the time, plus books, habits, and the things I am still figuring out.

There's no single secret. There are things you do right from the start: the stack, the hosting, the files, and the words.

I sat in the back row and hoped nobody would call on me. Then I ended up running Passion and GDSC, and had to learn how to lead a team instead of doing everything myself.

Four weeks in the United States on the Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program. What Virginia and Arkansas were actually like, and what I would tell someone about to apply.

I have written something every day for more than 500 days straight. Why I started, how I run it in Notion, and what reading a whole quarter back tells me about myself.

Ali Abdaal says make the work enjoyable. David Goggins says push until it hurts. Two books, two opposite answers, and how to tell which one is yours.

Yearly goals are worth writing down, and they are possible to hit. Here is the mindset, the habits, the monk mode stretch, and the list of what I actually finished in 2023.