I see my dad is asset rich, but cash flow poor.
Second, he is surrounded by middle-class, highly educated people who look down on him, or that's
what he thinks of about himself. See? how lack of self-respect is a tool satan uses to
induce poor people to do bad things in society?. Now I don't want to pretend people are all-angels.
This model that what society wants, see I use the word WANTS, is always GOOD. This is
total bullshit. I asked a PhD person what are his views on why Amazon wouldn't want
to disrupt small-businesses in Pakistan? and his response was Amazon would be happy to
disrupt businesses in Pakistan, but they are not sure of market demand and are unhappy of
market size and product/market fit in Pakistan. Well, there you go. Any illusion of progress
in Pakistan is just that, an illusion. Whether you are having expensive cars, a good home
or luxurious food, it's all illusion. Trust me. Getting degrees in Pakistan is the last thing
I would ever do in my life. I learned to distrust the people I hang out with. I don't trust
anyone. It's my badge of life. "Never trust anyone". That's what I used to say to myself throughout
the whole middle school, that's why I aced classes. Now I started trusting people, my scores
gradually started to suck. There is no business of Aali being in Pakistan. Period.
Talk about Venture capital. Chris Sacca said that he used to hang out and show-up at
every kind of meeting when he was at Google. Now in Pakistan, it's opposite. The more
I show up at meetings, the more distracted I am. That's why I have no interest whatsoever
in higher education. But you know, it's not upto me. If God wants me to leave Pakistan,
then I wouldn't resist that! I don't get to choose what happens to me, but I can always
choose how I react to it or my reaction towards it.
This ain't my cause, as Xander Cage would probably say. I don't shit in a bucket that's
out of my control. Simple. But you know, maybe God wants me to be like Delilah from the movie The Tuxedo. Her real name is Delilah, but she works with
millionaire under the guise of "Agent Del Blaine". This kind of kiss-my-ass attitude, balanced
with a desire to not just get ahead but to be free from any kind of health, love, wealth and
happiness issue is what the goal is. Every Pakistani wants this. I think it's fool to
expect any of that from the education system. Mr. Kiyosaki gets it right. I learned more from
my own experiments and practical knowledge distilled and deconstructed from wisdom of
hundreds of authors of various books relating to many, many topics. I can't even count how
much books I read. Maybe like, 90 or 150, something like that. I am not saying I would
instantly be a winner for Shark Tank but what I'm saying is, like small giants,
I can start small in a geography where I have freedom, support and tools to test things
on my own. It's like business. You create MVP and have some leap-of-faith assumptions. That's it.
Everything will go up only if it starts small and as a big fish in a small pond, rather than
being a small fish in a giant pool of deadly, bloody sharks, and this is not a metaphor.
Education system is a bloody hell. Where one man's success or more accurately, one man's
reputation comes at the cost of hundreds of others. Just like the media who is destroying
the fashion industry, by and large creating a misconception that fashion is some kind
of modern hippie kind of era where only the rich are allowed. They may be right. Just look
at the wives of our officers in Pakistan, they wear branded clothes and then debate in
family meetings that fashion is bad. Wow. This kind of hypocrisy is common. If you read
the book Sapiens by Yuval Novah, you'll see what I mean. We want to mobilize technology,
but at the cost of morality. Our lives are like Microsoft HoloLens. We want to talk, but
we want to talk in trivial and abstract terms that don't exist in real life. What exists
only is our hypocrisy and double-life culture that is found in every home. I love when
people talk about how they were NEVER entitled to fashion or other kind of modern era.
Fashion is not bad. I love fashion, it is one industry that is creating a lot of jobs
in Pakistan, trust me. In fact, I the project me and dad did with Lakhani's botique and
Spa was a very lucrative project. We made them and gave them customized units of
large-scale hall level automatic arduino based Hall Air Freshener sprayers, some for their
botique which is in Islamabad, Pakistan and other units for their Spa, the Melange Cafe.
I've met one of the businessman in Lakhani's chain of businessess, they call him "Malik".
I like that guy. He's internally humble and very rigorous at the game of numbers.
He does business in reciepts. I like that. This is how rich people function.
They want proof of transactions. That is how accounting works. The thing is that the real
students are those who will create jobs that ain't exist now, especially in the minds
of Malik and people like him. I think, Pakistan is a LAND. I seriously think that
Pakistan will drown, the Old Pakistan I mean, and an unknown kind of Pakistan will appear.
I have no idea and I don't want to think of myself protected against risks.
That's why, if majority of smart people and talented individuals especially computer science
people are moving out of Pakistan to build their careers outside of Pakistan, then why
should I stay here? It would be fool to think I am exclusive and I can succeed in Pakistan.
No I ain't a son of Malik Lakhani. If Malik Lakhani was born as a middle class, then I'm
sure he would've done the same. Remember, exclusivity is the number one excuse middle-class
people and politicians use to trick us. It's a game of horrors. Don't think you are
exclusive of horrors that are about to be blessed upon the state of Pakistan.
Exclusivity is the number one excuse we all need to get rid of and throw it into a dustbin.
My middle class family members suggest that I can be rich and successful if I stay in
Pakistan and never make an effort to change my life. Nothing could be as boring and wrong
as this ridiculous idea. And it's just that: an idea of middle-class working-class people.
It is far from truth.
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