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Monday, 4 June 2018

Investments and Investing through a perspective of a Muslim

There's a book Debt: First 5000 Years that suggests Islam had this system in which investors put money to finance shops and then the revenue was distributed according to shares owned and contract. This was a form of debt.
To blow your mind, consider this paragraph:
What is the difference between a mere obligation, a sense that one ought to behave in a certain way, or even that one owes something to someone and a debt, properly speaking? The answer is simple: money. The difference between a debt and an obligation is that a debt can be precisely quantified. This requires money.
There were also partnerships so when a Muslim, no matter male/female, black/white or from whichever country whether the trade was between local parties or foreigners, the partnership was made. One party provided Real Estate, for example. Other party agreed to provide staff, training and ongoing operations upfront. Hence import and exports. Originally, Muslims were the most open-minded people on Earth. There's a quote, attributed to Prophet Muhammad(P.B.U.H.) that "Seek knowledge even if you have to go as far as China". Two things:
1) Due to the distance of China from Arab, seeking knowledge is encouraged in this way of "crossing jurisdictional boundaries".
2) At the time, most people would go China to learn Chinese. And for an Arab, it is encouraged to "get out of comfort zone", as they say. Today, this could apply to learning to program micro-controllers or whatever.
It was this quote that inspired me to learn Russian, German, Spanish, Croatian and Latin. Islam always had Multiple Mental Model approach. Just think of Al-Jabr, the young and brave Muslim soul who formed much of the basis of what would later become Algebra.
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21st Century was a synergy of cataclysmic reactions to synthesize Arts, Science and Technology. The robot Zeus, as in Real Steel, is one such bold imagination after centuries of hard work. Which means, in future, Robots will have feelings and perceptions just like humans.They would be able to follow, hate and love. How much possibility for robots matching human? I'd say 50-50.

Cortana can understand and chat, just like humans. But she's just designed to do what a computer does: be an effective command taker and help "create" more productivity. Ditto for Siri. And please don't ask if I know about Alexa, as one aspiring young lady posed the question, as if we are Neanderthals looking at a Nintendo. For God's sake, I know a thing or two about Asynchronous and Synchronous Speech Recognition(Visual Basic/C#). I like how Samsung brought Smartphones to the market here in Pakistan, unlike Amazon which doesn't even bother to bring a product as such Alexa to the Pakistani market. Indians get the benefit, no one even glances at Pakistan... Uh yet Pakistan still continues to top off population, with its name in Top 15 countries with greatest populations. How the hell can such a small country have such population? we're used to it. I've been working on the Arduino in the certain months of my past. But to me, technology In PAKISTAN matters a lot.
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The 2008 bubble was a disaster for some people. Good for Mike Murphy, the famous Shorter of Subprimes, as portrayed by Michael Lewis. Y combinator, started circa 2006, made Airbnb possible. Shopify, DuoLingo, Twitter, Facebook and DietBet all these companies not only survived, but thrived. Quora, another popular Q&A website, launched and made public in 2010. Quora has a lot of "Knowledge Differentiation". They make use of the knowledge bubble of the now. You can listen to opinions, and put your own too on hot topics like Sexual Abuse. You can rather answer questions that directly ask for facts, like the best Chinese Restaurants in San Francisco. You can be a part of a cryptocurrency community and talk about your own frustations and experience with PayPal, YouTube or any product from the original PayPal gang. When the companies were pouring in trillions of dollars, just to compete and overreact to one new IPO happening at the very next moment.
Lenon Brothers is one such example.
Guys Please I have a small ask. If you find any grammatical mistakes, sentences not making sense, that is my fault. Please comment and correct any mistakes. Moreover Please link any helpful resource, video(like a Real Steel Trailer etc.) in comments. I can edit the article and link further resources. But I won't. Just to keep things interesting.

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