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Why Software Engineers should start their own business toady

Why Software Engineers should start their own business toady

Engineering is a technical discipline and businesses require vision and strategy. It’s easy for to get stuck in chasing the latest framework to keep your technical skills sharp. However, the value of any technical skill is relative to the business context in which it’s being used, particularly in

The Econ Dev: Shifting Inward

The Econ Dev: Shifting Inward

When I started The Econ Dev, I intended it to be a space where I could share my thoughts and insights on changes in the economic and business landscape that I had been observing for years. As a Muslim with familiarity with several economic schools of thought and an interest

Two Masters

Who produces the material that you feed your mind with?

Modest Behaviour

Modest Behaviour

Crisp morning air travels through the sea of white as it flows faultlessly as you see them make their way to the entry doors. Sunday mornings have never been quite the same for the American streets of inner cities and the rural enclaves of Black America. The covering of the

Acts of Worship

Acts of Worship

Sitting at the local not-so-local coffee shop near my home near Atlanta in the small town of Covington, Ga, there is a sizeable gathering of spectators attempting to get a glimpse of what they perceive as American Royalty. Actors for the past century have enamored the minds of the masses

Darkness Wrapped in Light, pt 1

In the name of Allah the Beneficent, the Merciful. I bear witness that there is no God but Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is His Messenger. Discernment is vital. All of the information we have is not useful. Some of it is disseminated to destroy or disrupt The

The Pen at the Speed of Thought

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, The Merciful. I bear witness that there is no God but Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is His Messenger. As-Salaam-Alaikum with a trillon blessings. Were your thoughts more organized you would be an even greater force of creation. Our thoughts are

Mind One

If you could learn to think like God would you?

Fighting For Femininity

Fighting For Femininity

“All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles. A girl child ain't safe in a family of men…” By far one of the most notable lines of Ms.

Black Casualties of a Gender War

Discourse Featured

Black Casualties of a Gender War

In the Black community the default discourse between men and women has become unbalanced in such a way that is both static and gendered.

The Dystopian Will Fall

The Dystopian Will Fall

Shadow-covered streets strewn with remnants of corpses mutilated by those known as the “Butchers” that patrol the once bustling Wall Street. Huddled beneath the earth, we cower painstakingly regulating our breathing as to not alert the death lurkers wandering above. One could say this mirrors a scene from the popular

Elevating Discourse using PEAQ

Elevating Discourse using PEAQ

One of the aims of this site and my writing is to reintroduce a more substantive approach to thinking about and having conversations around subjects that are engaging but not dependent on invoking raw emotional impulses on any given topic. While it can be argued that emotionally charged headlines have

Motivations

Economic development is much more than charts and graphs with incomprehensible jargon served up as an explanation to do something.

Welcome to The.Econ.Dev

Welcome to The.Econ.Dev

The.Econ.Dev is a place to explore and discuss economic development in different parts of the world that affect communities large and small.