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What began as a plan to hike in one of three countries—scaling Iran’s Mount Damavand (5,610 m), climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania (5,895 m), or trekking Ethiopia’s highlands, eventually found its natural conclusion in Ethiopia. Addis Ababa, the capital, revealed itself as a modern city gracefully woven with green spaces, wide avenues, and an unexpected…
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Looking back, this year began not with fireworks, as usual, but with a golden sunrise at Annapurna Base Camp, 4,130 meters above sea level in Nepal. After three strenuous days of trekking, reaching the base camp felt like a quiet achievement, especially with minimal acclimatization. There is a saying: to truly know yourself, climb a…
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For many, the words goal setting trigger not motivation but anxiety. The term evokes images of relentless discipline, rigid schedules, unrealistic expectations, and a life in which spontaneity quietly disappears. Perhaps the most poetic sarcasm I have ever heard captures this irony beautifully: “The whole purpose of my life is to find the purpose of…
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If we observe keenly, we see that most of our time and energy is spent in reaction. We react to events, to people, to the world as it appears, but more fundamentally, we react to our own perceptions. These perceptions are never raw; they are filtered through the inner self, be it called the soul,…
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Donald Trump says a lot when he goes off script—maybe too much for his own good. His recent speech in the Knesset and the bizarre circus at Sham al-Shaykh laid bare not just his foreign policy vision, but the raw mechanics of power, patronage, and performance that define it. There, amid what was billed as…
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A research breakthrough from Samsung’s SAIL Montréal is challenging the core assumption that more powerful AI requires more parameters. Led by Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau, the team has released the Tiny Recursive Model (TRM), an open-source model that dramatically outperforms both massive LLMs and the previously state-of-the-art Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) on hard puzzle and reasoning benchmarks,…
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On November 15, 1988, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), under Chairman Yasser Arafat, declared the establishment of the State of Palestine in Algiers. International recognition followed almost immediately—Algeria was the first to extend acknowledgment. By the end of 1988, nearly 78 countries had recognized Palestine, with India becoming the first non-Arab country to do so.…
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If you’re building products with Large Language Models (LLMs), you’ve likely encountered their biggest limitation: their knowledge is static, frozen at the point of their training. To solve this, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a go-to solution, enabling dynamic access to external knowledge. But what if your application needs more than just accurate retrieval? What…
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Historically, successful businesses thrived by identifying unmet customer needs and delivering solutions—a classic market-pull strategy. Today’s startup ecosystem, however, often operates in reverse: a market-push model where founders and investors flood the market with products and services, sometimes even before validating whether a real problem even exists. Fueled by abundant venture capital, low interest rates,…
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According to World Bank data, 8.5% of the world’s population—roughly 700 million people—still lives on less than $2.15 per day. A quarter of humanity, or about 2 billion people, survives on less than $3.65 per day. With the global population now exceeding 8.2 billion, these numbers expose a world of staggering inequality. The poorest half…
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