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Yearly recap 2023
By:Fadee KannahJanuary 01, 2024 —22 Min Read — InPersonal
Another eventful year! I managed to complete some big goals and make progress on on others. I somehow managed quite of few…
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Yearly recap 2022
By:Fadee KannahJanuary 01, 2023 —13 Min Read — InPersonal
Goals achieved this year Have an estate plan Since now I got property and multiple different accounts, having an estate plan is…
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Yearly recap 2021
By:Fadee KannahJanuary 01, 2022 —16 Min Read — InPersonal
2021 another busy year... Luckily, this time we were able to meet people and go outside thanks to the vaccine. This year can be…
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Yearly recap 2020
By:Fadee KannahJanuary 01, 2021 —19 Min Read — InPersonal
Although this year was challenging and kind of sucked. It was still a good year for me. The year literally started with me…
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Startup Investment Rounds Explained
By:Fadee KannahApril 02, 2020 —1 Min Read — InThoughts
Getting money from investors is difficult! To make it a bit easier one must look at the investors' perspective and understand what they are…
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#Fundraising
Evaluating an Asset
By:Fadee KannahMarch 29, 2020 —1 Min Read — InThoughts
There are three ways to evaluating an asset: Greater fool theory Assets Income Greater Fool Theory In real estate, they call it…
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Transition to working from home
By:Fadee KannahMarch 29, 2020 —3 Min Read — InThoughts
As the world spiraled into chaos and California was put into lockdown, we transitioned our team to work from home. We had a…
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An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
By:Fadee KannahMarch 15, 2020 —10 Min Read — InBooks
When it comes to engineering management there aren't that many books that tackle this topic. Luckily with the increase of…
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Year review 2019
By:Fadee KannahJanuary 01, 2020 —21 Min Read — InPersonal
Last year I did a year review and I really enjoyed reflecting on it. I had decided that I will keep documenting each year's…
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Creating & scaling a viral evangelism loop
By:Fadee KannahDecember 08, 2019 —3 Min Read — InTalks
I got to listen to this talk during the Launch Scale 2019 conference. This talk one of the most interesting talks for me. It…
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The mortgage refinancing process
By:Fadee KannahNovember 28, 2019 —9 Min Read — InPersonal
Before making any big financial decision one must have a very good understanding of the reasoning behind it. When it comes to…
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#Mortgage
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Your Money or Your Life
By:Fadee KannahOctober 15, 2019 —9 Min Read — InBooks
This book was originally published in 1992! Many things have changed in the 25+ years since that book was originally written…
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#Money
Launch Scale 2019 Summary
By:Fadee KannahOctober 08, 2019 —2 Min Read — InTalks
This fall Luke and I got to attend the Launch Scale conference. The conference is geared towards founders and helping early stage startups…
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Technical Leadership
By:Fadee KannahOctober 07, 2019 —2 Min Read — InThoughts
For a long time I have been trying to figure out exactly what my role as a "technical leader" really means. I have been…
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#Leadership
My college journey
By:Fadee KannahJune 18, 2019 —6 Min Read — InPersonal
Semester by semester Fall 2010 It all started while, I was in high school. I learned that I would not be able to graduate unless I meet the…
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San Diego Start Up Week 2019 Talk
By:Fadee KannahJune 08, 2019 —1 Min Read — InTalks
In 2016 I attended San Diego Start Up week for the first time. At the time, I got free tickets since CourseKey was a part of the EvoNexus…
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The 35th Annual Children's Book Party
By:Fadee KannahMay 02, 2019 —1 Min Read — InPersonal
Last week I got to volunteer for the children's book party at Balboa Park. I learned about the event through the EOP program at SDSU. The…
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Developer Week Conference Recap
By:Fadee KannahApril 16, 2019 —4 Min Read — InPersonal
This was our second time attending the conference! In 2018, we attended the conference for a single day. We flew in…
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My commencement speech
By:Fadee KannahApril 09, 2019 —3 Min Read — InPersonal
After an eight year educational journey at San Diego State University, it is time to graduate! Since I kept busy and was…
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My strengths assessment
By:Fadee KannahMarch 25, 2019 —10 Min Read — InPersonal
What are my strengths? That is a question that I had when I started at San Diego State University. I observed a lot of talented…
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Mesa Student Leadership 2019 Recap
By:Fadee KannahMarch 20, 2019 —2 Min Read — InTalks
This is an annual conference held yearly by the MESA program. It is focused on honing the leadership skills for the…
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The post that changed everything
By:Fadee KannahMarch 15, 2019 —3 Min Read — InPersonal
We all have moments that possess a massive rippling effect. Usually those ripples occur from tiny actions, that sometimes we…
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STRENGTHS FINDER
By:Fadee KannahMarch 09, 2019 —1 Min Read — InTalks
Rafael Alvarez is the MESA program director at San Diego City College. Summary This is a talk explaining how the Gallup Strengths…
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Emotional Intelligence
By:Fadee KannahMarch 09, 2019 —2 Min Read — InTalks
Dr. Vanderslice is an assistant professor at California Baptist University Jabs School of Business. Gaynell teaches management…
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Social Media & Your Brand
By:Fadee KannahMarch 09, 2019 —1 Min Read — InTalks
Luis Topete MESA Schools Program director at San Diego State University Summary How does one create a leadership brand? The way…
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Outside The Box
By:Fadee KannahMarch 09, 2019 —1 Min Read — InTalks
Jose Monoroy is the Technical Solution Sales Director at Intel Corporation where he is responsible for the incubation of new Data…
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Make Your Existing Application Serverless with React, Graphql and Cloudflare Workers
By:Fadee KannahFebruary 21, 2019 —1 Min Read — InTalks
This talk was hosted during the Developer Week 2019 conference. I attended this because I was curious about the topic…
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Blitzscaling Your API - Lessons Learned After Building over 400 Integrations
By:Fadee KannahFebruary 21, 2019 —2 Min Read — InTalks
This talk was hosted during the Developer Week 2019 conference. I attended this talk to learn about building APIs for…
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Eventbrite’s 13-Year Technical Evolution
By:Fadee KannahFebruary 21, 2019 —1 Min Read — InTalks
This talk was hosted during the Developer Week 2019 conference. I attended this talk to satisfy my curiosity for how Eventbrite…
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A Decade of Stack Overflow - Building a Place for Anyone Who Codes
By:Fadee KannahFebruary 21, 2019 —1 Min Read — InTalks
This talk was hosted during the Developer Week 2019 conference. I attended this talk to learn about how the company grew and…
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Enabling Business Agility Through Evolutionary Architecture
By:Fadee KannahFebruary 21, 2019 —2 Min Read — InTalks
This talk was hosted during the Developer Week 2019 conference. I attended this talk to have better understanding on how to…
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Strengthening the Tribe - Developers Enabling Developers
By:Fadee KannahFebruary 21, 2019 —2 Min Read — InTalks
This talk was hosted during the Developer Week 2019 conference. I attended this talk because it covers an important topic which…
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#Education
100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings
By:Fadee KannahFebruary 06, 2019 —1 Min Read — InBooks
This was another unplanned read! A friend/coworker ordered for our office. I got interested after looking at few pages. Since I…
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Zero To One
By:Fadee KannahFebruary 01, 2019 —11 Min Read — InBooks
Peter taught a startup course at Stanford in 2012. The goal of the course was to teach the students to “see beyond the tracks…
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F.U. Money
By:Fadee KannahJanuary 21, 2019 —6 Min Read — InBooks
This was an unplanned read! Although my to-read booklist is full of books to go through, this book ended up being the first…
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Year review 2018
By:Fadee KannahJanuary 11, 2019 —13 Min Read — InPersonal
Before jumping into 2019, I took a step back and did some self-reflection. As I took a deeper look into last year, I realized that 2018 has…
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