Behind the Album "20:20"

Motivation

I adamantly believe that while ultimately feelings are how we make sense of the world (i.e. underneath the hood, thoughts are “understood” through changes in emotional states), we humans are terrible at preserving feelings and emotions. We feel so much so often and yet do so little to...

Future of Work

The future of software development is not large software companies with thousands of engineers; it’s small groups of developers working on projects they’re passionate about, funded via Github Sponsors.

The future of music production is not a few superstars making billions through large record labels and music production studios; it’s...

On Maturity

I started systematically thinking about the idea of maturity in the summer of 2018 as in the preceeding few months, I had witnessed a profound change in my internal machinery and external behavior that I did not have a better word to associate with.

It’s an elusive word, maturity; it...

On the Death of Ennio Morricone

I’m not sure why I feel so strongly about this event, or why I seem to be so affected by it.. but I know I don’t want to let myself forget this strange and singular feeling.

Maybe I’ve been on an emotional roller coaster for so long that this latest...

TikTok and The Rise of Composable Content

Ever since hearing Gustav Soderstorm (Head of Research at Spotify) describe Spotify users creating playlists as a form of meta-programming, I’ve started to realize that as tooling and technologies for content creation increase in sophistication, we can apply more and more concepts from the world of programming to that...

On Sacrifice

Ten years ago, my parents made the decision to move from Iran to the U.S. so that my brother and I could have access to better education and opportunities. While immigration to the U.S. on the basis of access to opportunity is a prosaic idea, thoroughly explored and romanticized by...