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Life as a Millennial – my Interview on Dubai Eye

  Last week I saw a request on Twitter for Generation Y listeners to come onto Dubai Eye. talking #millenial mindset on #bizbreakfast tmrw with @Visamiddleeast. Love to get thoughts from Generation Y listeners of @DubaiEye1038FM. — Richard Dean (@richardradiodxb) August 29, 2016 Admittedly, I’m not a fan of Dubai radio stations but I reserve […]

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My Personal Technology Stack (April 2016)

  I’m currently working on a project for work to improve employee productivity. As I was doing my research, I kept referring back to my personal tool set to optimize my workflow. So I figured I’d outline my tech stack today and share the tools that make my life easier. I’ll try to do this […]

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Keeping Up to Date

  There are a few habits that stick with you from childhood and beyond. My parents always encouraged me to read the newspaper everyday (perhaps they had heard of it being a common trait successful people do in the morning). I kept that habit until the end of high school but unfortunately as time went on, keeping up-to-date […]

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52 Books in 2015

52 Books in 2015

We might be midway through March but I’ve been wanting to blog about one of my experiences of last year. And since better late than never, here we go. As the title suggests, I made the audacious resolution of reading 52 books in 2015. And somehow, I managed to keep that resolution and read 52 new books […]

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Happy Birthday Twitter

  While today is Mother’s Day, it also marks another important day: the 10th birthday of Twitter. With #TwitterMemories and #LoveTwitter becoming trending topics today, I decided to take a walk down memory lane with my fellow Twitterarti. It’s no secret that I love Twitter (with Snapchat picking up second place). I joined Twitter back in early 2009 as […]

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Flash Blog: Entrepreneur Middle East Women’s Forum 2015

  Today I attended the Achieving Women’s Forum at the Ritz Carlton JBR organized by Entrepreneur Middle East, featuring some extremely successful female entrepreneurs and business women. For those that aren’t active on Twitter, I’m compiled key points that resonated with me today (and paraphrased heavily!). These were quick notes so if you spot any errors, please […]

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TechCrunch Dubai PitchOff 2015 Winners

Yesterday, Dubai hosted its first TechCrunch Meetup and PitchOff event at Turn8 TheCribb in Al Quoz. The pitch format consisted of 2 minute presentation (no slides) followed by a 3 minute Q&A featuring TechCrunch Editor-at-Large Mike Butcher, who’s in town for the Step Conference taking place today. I caught a few of the pitches. Some were […]

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2014 Reading List

I did this back in 2012 and considering one of my resolutions for 2015 is to read 52 books, I figured it’d be a good idea to see how well I did in 2014. Here’s what I read (based on my Kindle purchase history) – and some are a bit fruity so please don’t judge! […]

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2012 Read List

This April I bought myself the most useful gadget I’ve ever purchased. No, not an iPhone, iPad or laptop but an Amazon Kindle.  Within a month I knew it was a “must-buy” gadget and you can find my full review here. Since it’s the end of the year, and about 9 months since I’ve owned […]

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