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As I discover insights and encounters of note as I go through my career, I try to leave some indicators or markers that can serve as lessons for me and others. If you’re interested, you can subscribe over RSS or email.
2023
The Un-Healthy Health Data Club: GoodRX, BetterHelp, and the Growing Horizon of Health Data Privacy
About two weeks ago, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it will be settling accusations with online counseling service BetterHelp that the company a...
2021
Privacy Engineering, Negative Law, and Ethics in Tech
This week I started attending a Transnational Law & Practice intensive in preparation for my Master’s degree at the University of Washington School of La...
The Un-Blame Game
One of the work practices I thoroughly embraced from previous jobs is creating a blameless culture with people I work with. I am fortunate to work with some ...
2018
Beyond Borders: A Recap of the 2018 Muppies Conference
This year I was honored with acceptance into Muppies, an organization of over 2,500 Muslim professionals spanning 25 different countries. I started attending...
2016
Privilege in the context of the American Dream
I had a conversation today while at a Grace Hopper networking event with a New York City Entrepreneur who works in the diversity recruiting space. One of our...
The Death of the Urban Utopia
In 2012, I had the chance to hear from Howard Frumkin while attending TEDxRainier. In his talk he discusses the qualities of the optimal human habitat. In ot...
OpenID Connect: A Primer for Hackathons and App-Makers
The social factor has become an important dimension in how many web and mobile apps work today. Everything from providing a basic profile for a user to conne...
Open Letter to Peter Zieve - CEO of ElectroImpact, Mukilteo, WA
To: Peter Zieve PeterZ@electroimpact.com, “mukilteostaysafe@gmail.com” From: Tariq Yusuf tariq@tariqyusuf.in Subject: Mukilteo Postcards Date: 14 April 20...
2015
Mind the Gap: My experience at Grace Hopper
Last month, I had the opportunity to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing. For those not familiar with the event, it is one of the larg...
What the Paris Attacks Felt Like For American Muslims
I wrote up some thoughts in the Seattle Globalist about the recent Paris attacks and how they affect Muslims living in western countries and the US in partic...
The CyberWar Threat: Home Automation Systems
Some recent work I did with Dr. Yoshi Kohno on hacking home automation systems recently aired on Nova. The piece starts at around 29:30.
#IStandWithAhmed: An Open Letter to the Superintendent of the Irving School District
To: Jose Perra jperra@irvingisd.net
Windows 10 Digest: A Step in the Right Direction
Microsoft recently released Windows 10, an attempt at unifying the desktop and mobile experiences through a single unified interface. When it comes to mobile...
“Are You Mocking Me?”: Overriding Object Behavior in Python Unit Tests
One of the things I’ve learned working at Google have been the importance of testing code such that it executes reliably and consistently. Most of my familia...
Decaffeinated
Welcome to my blog. Occasionally I’ll post various things of interest or write up observations I find in every day work and life. Feel free to email me or co...