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Corporate Wisdom: The Water Carrier’s Donkey

Long ago, cities didn’t have running water. A water carrier used a donkey to deliver water to people’s homes. The donkey worked very hard every day. Its back was bent from carrying heavy loads, and its body was full of wounds. The owner didn’t take good care of the donkey. He fed it poorly and often beat it to make it move faster. The donkey was patient, but it suffered a lot and often wished it would die to escape the pain. One day, the water carrier met a friend who worked in the king’s stables. Seeing the donkey’s terrible condition, the friend offered to take it in and care for it. The owner happily agreed. At the royal stables, the donkey saw strong, beautiful horses living in comfort. Comparing himself to them, he felt sad and complained to God: “Why do they live so well while I suffer so much?” Suddenly, a war broke out. Soldiers rushed in, took the horses, and rode them into battle. The next day, the horses returned badly injured—covered in wounds and arrows. Watching this, the...
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Why Digital Marketing is not for everyone?

Recently, COVID-19 changed everything: the way we work, communicate, enjoy, and interact. Companies and organizations had to adopt the work-from-home model. E-commerce saw a boom as people faced lockdowns and restrictions. businesses realized the importance of digital channels for marketing and selling products and services.  While it created huge job opportunities for digital marketers, it certainly showed that it is not for everyone. Let me elaborate.  The first thing that motivates people to go digital is the success stories of brands and companies that are minting money online. The other is the stats of internet and social media users. When they hear that there are 2 billion Facebook users, Instagram has 800 million users, etc., they start to drool.  What they don't realize is that not all 2 billion people will be interested in their business. This figure is cumulative. These people are divided into different regions, countries, niches, likes, and other categories. It...
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Do you know these facts about memes?

Millions of apps exist in the world. The number is increasing exponentially. The real challenge for the developers is to reach the audience. One may have the most fantastic app in the world, but if the users don’t know about it then it is like a white elephant! It costs so much but it is of no use.  Not everyone can afford millions of dollars to market their apps. Marketers are now integrating internet memes for app promotion in particular and promotion in general. Let me tell you a bit about internet memes.   In 1976, a British evolutionary biologist and author, Richard Dawkins, in his book “The Selfish Gene,” presented the idea of Memes . Analogous to a gene, a meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person across cultures. He likened the spread of ideas from culture to culture to the genes found in living beings. As genes can move among offspring, Memes can also mutate, change, and eventually die.  Internet Memes are a subset of memes. Any ...
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5 Tips to Make Your Code Awesome

Coding is one of the professions with a profound impact. Programming enabled humans to land on the moon; it revolutionized businesses, created millions of jobs, and digitized every aspect of our daily lives.  However, programming has its fair share of pitfalls that result in huge losses of money and resources. These pitfalls emanate from simple, but bad programming habits. In this article, we’ll discuss five tips that would make your program error-free. So let’s dive in right away: 1. Avoid copy-pasting/plagiarizing code from websites: However, it is entirely normal to search for any problem on Stack Overflow , if you get stuck somewhere. Similarly, it is also reasonable to copy code when you are learning. But blindly copying and pasting snippet of codes from a website is a bad practice.  It hinders you from realizing your full potential. It is very enticing to take a shortcut, but it would hurt you in the long run. You would become so reliant on online help that you won’t be ...
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Will Quantum Computing rescue the Internet of Things (IoT)

The IoT is the latest fad in the computing world. If you haven’t heard it yet, it is the Internet of Things! It does what it is supposed to do. It connects the electronic devices to the internet, e.g., your refrigerators, microwave ovens, cars, and even doorknobs. By 2020, it is estimated that 50 billion devices will be connected to the IoT. Despite the pace of connectivity, IoT is still figuring out some very basic problems, such as privacy concerns, security issues, integrating it with traditional computing , data transfer, etc. With the rising number of crimes, traditional computing doesn’t seem very promising. Perhaps Computing based on Quantum Mechanics may resolve these pressing issues.  What is Quantum Mechanics? It is a branch of physics that deals with matter at the subatomic level and its interaction. It differs from Classical Physics in that energy, momentum, and other subatomic properties are quantized or restricted to a certain level. At that level, matter c...
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Job Enrichment – Reigniting Enthusiasm

Job enrichment  denotes assigning new or redesigned job descriptions to the current job roles and responsibilities. Each designee in any organization is assigned certain tasks and roles that s/he are expected to fulfill, so they are entitled to a certain amount of recompense in terms of money, bonuses, perks, and other  fringe benefits . The main purpose of job enrichment is to reignite enthusiasm in the employees and give them the feeling that they are cared for and that the management is not only concerned about their current job and tasks but also endeavors to give them skill sets that will be beneficial for them in the long run. For example, the  network administrator  may be assigned the new task of  data backup  of the organization's online assets. Similarly, job enlargement is to increase the job responsibilities within the ambit of the same designation.  For example, besides the clerical and business correspondence, the personal secretary c...
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Major Commandments in the Holy Quran and Similarity in Other Scriptures

The other day I was reading the Holy Quran I came across the commandments given to Muslims in Chapter 17 ( Surah Israa ), I found that similar commandments are also found in the  Old and New Testaments (the  10 commandments and the  seven deadly sins ), and even in non-Semitic religions, i.e., Buddhism .  People who have read those will find the similarity here (as the Holy Quran confirms what is in the previous books and makes corrections where necessary).  Don’t associate any partner with God. (Chapter: Surah Israa 17, Verse 22) Worship Him alone. (Chapter 17, Verse 23) Respect and Good behavior towards parents. (17, 23) Keeping the ties of Kinship. (17, 26)   Spending in the way of Allah on relatives, destitute, and way-travelers . Avoiding wasting wealth. (17, 26) Don’t kill your children out of fear of poverty. (17, 31) Avoiding extramarital relationship/fornication . (17, 32) Don’t kill the innocent. (17, 33) Don’t devour the wealth of orphans/wido...
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5 Gross Habits Pakistanis Should Stop Doing Immediately

Pakistanis are amazing people. When they realize their full potential, they go nuclear on their own. Make fighter jets . Win sports world cups . However, they have a fair share of useless and gross habits. Pakistan would be better off without these: 1.    Spitting in every nook and corner One of the grossest things you would experience in Pakistan is the patches of saliva almost everywhere. The habit isn’t limited to the uneducated folks, even the well-off and educated people indulge in this gross habit. Some spit the Naswar balls, others the ground Chhalya , and the rest, the Pan . Besides having these sweet ‘confectionaries’, people feel compelled to prove their masculinity by hurling the spittle in the most distant trajectories. Believe me, no girl has ever got impressed with this ‘show’ of masculinity. 2.    ‘ Safai Muhim ’ of their noses You would find some people so engrossed (almost ecstatic) in cleaning their noses and making small balls of boogers tha...
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Soul Mate: Script

Soul Mate (Script Inspired by a story in Reader's Digest) By: M. Danish Hussain Qureshi Characters Fariha: A young girl, who is unaware of her fatal disease Kamal: Fariha’s father Sameena: Fariha’s mother Arsalan: Boy who receives cornea donation Eye Surgeon, Doctor 1, Doctor 2: Different doctors Act I Scene 1 FADE IN INT - Home -  Day Synopsis: Fariha, an 18 years old girl is talking to her mother. She shows her a sketch, she drew. Woman sitting on a sofa, a girl enters the room with a paper in her hands. Girl pulls out ear plugs attached to her mp3 player, from her ears Girl sits on the sofa besides the woman and takes out the paper in front of her Woman looks at the paper Woman looks at the girl’s face Girl talks looking at the paper Girl gets up and puts the ear plugs in her ears Girl gets out...
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