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Bassem Elhawary
Bassem Elhawary

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Mar 6, 2022

Radical Candor

Managing Successfully and Humanly — This post is based on the summary of Kim Scott’s book Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity. As a manager, your action can fall into 4 categories: Ruinous Empathy That’s when you care personally about your team member, but stay silent about something that needs improvement in them. Manipulative Insincerity That’s when you personally don’t give a shit about your…

Management

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Radical Candor
Radical Candor
Management

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Feb 26, 2022

Talent Exodus

Your sure path to expelling talents from your organization — I have worked in a variety of companies that had different scales and cultures, from a handful of people in a startup to hundreds of people on a single floor in a large corporation. I think I’ve learned a few lessons about talent expulsion that are worth sharing. By talents…

Organizational Behavior

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Talent Exodus
Talent Exodus
Organizational Behavior

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Mar 29, 2021

I Don’t Know How Long It’s Gonna Take

In software development we usually work on things that are completely new to us. Sometimes we have a problem to fix, it’s not a bug per se but more of a user or business problem that we wanna fix but we don’t know which solution would work. Sometimes it’s a…

Product Management

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I Don’t Know How Long It’s Gonna Take
I Don’t Know How Long It’s Gonna Take
Product Management

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·Mar 4, 2021

Learnings From a Failing Release

Failure is not necessarily a bad sign — Last week we launched a new Beta version of our app. This beta release brought an immense amount of negative feedback from our users, and I have collected some learnings that I think are worth sharing. I’m writing this article on March 1st 2021. Let’s have a flashback to reach…

Product

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Product relaunch journey - Learnings from a failing release
Product relaunch journey - Learnings from a failing release
Product

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Jan 14, 2021

Just do it!

That’s a little reminder that things don’t get done by themselves, it’s very easy to fall in the trap of over analysis or excessive fear of failure and then you don’t start. Perfectionism won’t get you anywhere if you don’t take a first step. Watching 100 videos about body building or fat loss won’t burn as much calories as a walk. Watching a full course on programming won’t do if you don’t create a project and write some code yourself. Just do it and skip the bullshit, don’t create virtual blockers for yourself.

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Just do it!
Just do it!

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May 22, 2020

Facebook saving articles to collections is a broken feature

Every time I save a link/post/video on Facebook I get asked If I would like to add it to a collection. Whenever I want, I suffer from a broken experience imho. To explain it, imagine you have these 3 collections on Facebook Advertising Memes Product management And then you see…

Facebook

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Facebook saving articles to collections is a broken feature
Facebook saving articles to collections is a broken feature
Facebook

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·May 7, 2020

The Pandemic..

I have been thinking for some days actually before deciding to write on this topic. COVID-19 has a huge impact on the world, nobody can ignore this. …

Covid-19

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The Pandemic..
The Pandemic..
Covid-19

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May 2, 2020

The Pandemic..

I have been thinking for some days actually before deciding to write on this topic. COVID-19 has a huge impact on the world, nobody can ignore this. …

Covid-19

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The Pandemic..
The Pandemic..
Covid-19

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Apr 14, 2020

Retarded-proof Software

This is a short blog post, basically because I miss blogging and I had a recent idea that’s worth documenting. I aim as much as possible to make my software products user friendly and easy to use. However, in a recent discussion with one of my colleagues we were talking…

Product Management

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Retarded-proof Software
Retarded-proof Software
Product Management

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Mar 8, 2020

In a Relationship with a Feature..

In relationships between human beings, there is some pattern. In the beginnings you have the fascination, you’re dazzled, you feel like how can it be more perfect than this?! .. But then, while the time goes by, the fascinating uniqueness start to become less important, and what lasts is the…

Product Management

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In a Relationship with a Feature..
In a Relationship with a Feature..
Product Management

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Bassem Elhawary

Bassem Elhawary

117 Followers

I’m passionate about working with awesome teams on building kickass products. I write about my learnings & other stuff. https://www.linkedin.com/in/belhawary

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