Anonymized Personal Financial Statements — Disclosure: I am a strategic advisor to Aster Key, but more importantly, I am an fintech enthusiast and evangelist who shares their mission and vision to safeguard user data, privacy, and security, and fully support the pain points and unmet market needs their platform and product addresses. As we…

An app that’s more effective than a private tutor — Plenty of emerging research today confirms what many parents and teachers have known for the past few years. Of all its second-order effects, one of the most destructive tolls taken by the COVID-19 pandemic has been its devastating impact on national education and learning outcomes. With school closures, class cancellations…

The game-changing GPT-inspired conversational sales chatbot — Disclosure: I am a strategic advisor to Orimon.AI, but more importantly, I am a tech entrepreneur, enthusiast, and evangelist who shares their mission and vision to revolutionize enterprise sales, and fully support the pain points and unmet needs their platform and product address. Are you struggling to find the time…

GPT-powered WordPress plugin for 1-click content generation — Disclosure: I am a strategic advisor to StylemixThemes, but more importantly, I am a web design strategist and WordPress user who shares their mission and vision, and fully support the pain point and unmet need their platform addresses. Content creation — brainstorming, ideating, drafting, editing, and revising — for your…

Announcing my new adventure. — Friends, It’s your favorite clapper’s favorite clapper, Farooq, here to say goodbye to all of you. I’m retiring from clapping, reading, recommending, writing, gainful self-employment, all the things! It’s been a wild ride, but I think it’s time for me to move on to bigger and better things. Now, I…

Everything you’re looking for at a store nearby. — Disclosure: I am a strategic advisor to Hurry, but more importantly, I am a merchant and shopper who shares their mission and vision, and fully support the pain point and unmet need their platform addresses. For all its lauded perks, online shopping can be a real hassle. Deliveries get damaged…

tw: strangulation/IPV — My graduate public health practicum comprised an educational intervention to increase emergency medicine resident physician screening rates for intimate partner violence (IPV) at my alma mater, Stony Brook University Medical Center (SBUMC), where I was a senior research associate for Professor and Interim Chair Adam J. Singer, M.D. over 2…

Generate tests and elevate code integrity — Disclosure: I am a strategic advisor to CodiumAI, and a former testing lead/systems integration consultant who shares their mission and vision, and support the solution for pain points and unmet needs their product addresses. Software bugs are the worst. Besides leading to incorrect errors, unexpected results, long nights and frustrated…

This week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, and the Partnership for New York City — the nonprofit consortium of private sector executives and firms which promotes economic activity— announced a new campaign to reimagine and revitalize NYC. Predictably, ongoing local controversy centers on the…