About

I grew up across the world—born in Pakistan, then living in Lebanon, Kenya, and various states across the US. The world around me kept changing, so I became obsessed with what stayed the same: health, community, and the human desire for development. For years I wasn't sure how to bring these observations together. In undergrad I floated between classical civilizations of ancient Rome and Greece, biochemistry, game theory, economics, health policy, and international relations. I intended to go to medical school, but that plan was interrupted by a brief stretch at Epic Systems, where I co-led one of the company's first collaborative installs and assisted on two additional hospital EMR launches. That was followed by a slightly longer stint when I resigned to launch a marketing agency that I grew to a team of three. Eventually I received my green card, and my prospects for medical school improved significantly.

I was admitted to the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and committed to entering as both a learner and a burgeoning builder. It took me some time to find my footing back in academia. In parallel I continued compounding my media and technology ventures. Balancing the two was tough at times, but I decided it was a skill I needed to develop—so I might as well start early. Once I found my footing, I thrived when given responsibility and autonomy. I was driven by conversations with patients and energized by the ability to go home the same day and build a technological solution to a problem I had encountered hours earlier. I built many things—73 projects and repos. Fast and frequently I built, failed, learned, and repeated. Yet to this day I often have no idea what I'm doing. That's how I know whether I'm growing or stagnating. Ambiguity excites me. Problems excite me. Talk without action bores me. I'm figuring everything out in real time and sharing it along the way.

I started this website in 2020 during the pandemic. While studying classical Greece I realized that many of the people I was reading had written their greatest works in their twenties—something rarely acknowledged today. I had paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for a bachelor's degree without producing anything for the public the way those writers had thousands of years ago. I decided I was done waiting to act, speak, and share. I would start now, just as they had. Observing, doing something, reflecting on the outcome, writing about it, and sharing it publicly—across social media or this site—has since become an ingrained part of who I am.