AskDeveloper Podcast - 55 - Interview with Mostafa Nageeb

Mostafa has a computer science degree from Cairo University. He started a company back in Egypt in 2011, and when the company failed he moved to work for Microsoft in Egypt. He later moved to Europe where he became a product manager for Booking.com in Amsterdam. He later moved to GoEuro in Berlin, and now he is a product manager at Zalando where he overlooks Zalando development infrastructure and developer tooling
Ekshef Postmortem
mostafanageeb.com/2018/07/05/ekshef-postmortem/
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We can discuss this if you want, not in that level of details but can be part of the story.
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Ask Developer Podcast - 54 - Interview with Ahmed Essam - الرحلة من إمبابة الى وادي السيليكون

حوار شيق مع المهندس احمد عصام و رحلته في مجال التكنولوجيا و البرمجيات من البداية في القاهرة مرورا بمراحل مختلفة في اوروبا و الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية و حتى المرحلة الحالية من العمل في شركة Apple

• What defines ethical? -- * 

• Failing and realizing why it happened.

• Respect your own capabilities with consideration of (is it hard enough?)

• What do you do at work?

• You as a brand, what message do you want to deliver? "What you do is perceived as who you are"

• Dare to disrupt your life, When nothing is happening for while it is important to look on what have you done for the next step, what you are doing and the next months is basically the present (it is planned and determined and probably the outcome of it is known)

• The need to explore other areas to empower the current moment.

• Are you ready to answer all questions in a meeting? 

• Do you intentionally mislead people with subtle language/words?

• Starting a startup and how much I wasn't ready for it, how bad I treated people and how much effort did I have to work on my attitude?

• Are you really as good/bad as you think you are?

• Let's discuss "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self." - Ernest Hemingway

• Opinions and Facts, the critical need to distinguish both from each others.

• Where/Who/What you are doesn't define you, Anything is subject to change and none should be defining your future.

• Assuming (good intention)/(Positive attitude) when listening to people changes how people perceive you as ally or adversary

• Why good language matters at work.

• What is the difference between pushing the limits and (breaking the law / respecting others / etc)

• Your values and what drives you.

• Let's see why greedy will fall short to help you achieve your targets.

• The multi modes for writing code, communicating and looking back.

• What do you do while your work is compiling.

• The balance of listening to others and going your own way. 

• Picking up answers from Stack overflow. -- * 

When it works, do you know why it works? -- *