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Irum Godil
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May 10, 2022

Productivity Series: What to look for in a Mentor?

Once someone asked me, ‘How candid are you with your mentors?’ My answer was that if I cannot talk my heart out, that relationship is not worth both our times. Now, people question that what does it mean to speak your heart out and how easy is it always to…

Mentoring

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Mentoring

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Mar 6, 2022

Productivity Series: Writing Down Everything

One of the best constructive feedback that one of my managers gave me was: “You will write down everything that you have to do.” This can sometimes sound very granular and very draining, but the reality is that essentially documenting ‘every single’ thing that one has to do can be…

Productivity

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Productivity

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Mar 4, 2022

Why the End-End Picture Matters.

When I was in Grade 9, there used to be immense academic pressure in our lives on scoring the highest in our class. In Pakistan, where I did my initial academic studies, there was a system of Board exams, starting from Grade-9. …

Success

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Success

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Mar 3, 2022

Why is Work a Blessing?

I remember in the first few years of my career in around 2003, I was once talking to my dad on the phone. I was complaining that, ‘I have so much work to do.’ He responded to that, ‘It is a good thing if you have work to do.’ In…

Employmen

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Employmen

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Feb 28, 2022

The New Era of Interviewing

It is a sad reality of the Software industry that most folks have to spend days, weeks and years, sometimes to re-calibrate themselves for interviewing. …

Software

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Software

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Feb 26, 2022

Saying No to Peer-Pressure

I was thinking about my interactions with one of the Professors at the University of Toronto, Jim Clarke. I would ask his advice about which courses do I have to do in the next semester? I was deeply contemplating recently on his response, ‘You do not have to do any…

Peer Pressure

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Peer Pressure

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Jan 25, 2021

Blind

Covid-19 may have left no corner unturned to spike our stress-levels, however, it has also tremendously helped us to shift our center of focus to completely unimagined terrains. If someone was to ask me the biggest lesson that Covid has taught me, it would be, “The Uniformity of Existence.” I…

Covid-19

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Covid-19

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Dec 20, 2020

If you think you are beaten…

Intros: The 2020 December time during Covid-19 may seem like a very isolated time, with much less to do than what we are used to. …

Success

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If you think you are beaten…
If you think you are beaten…
Success

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Nov 9, 2020

Islam and Science — Harmony or Conflict

(This article was written for the course ‘Faith and Science’ in my final Undergrad year at the University of Toronto) By: Irum Godil, May 2002 Incompatibility between science and religion is one of the greatest philosophical conflicts of the modern human dialect. Although this incompatibility has been addressed in the…

Islam

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Islam

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