Most software companies give their employees titles and offer them the chance to get promoted from one title to another. Each title reflects the expertise of this employee and decides how much money they earn. The titles differ from one company to another, but a higher title does mean more experience, money, and a greater contribution to the software world. So the faster you reach a promotion, the more successful you are.

In this article, I will give you tips on how to do this.

1. Plan From Day 1

A big mistake that many software engineers make is not planning for their next promotion…

Many people judge us based only on our profession, and they forget we are human too. They look at how ambitious we are and how hard we work. However, we cannot neglect our personal life. Work is meant to serve our life — not the opposite. Many women feel that once they become mothers, they need to be stay-at-home moms (SAHMs). Sadly, many women give up on this wish, as they feel this decision will completely end their professional life.

That’s why I wrote this article: to tell you how can you be a stay-at-home mom while being a software…

I was checking my old reading journals. I found a journal I wrote while reading “How to kill a mockingbird” for Harper Lee. I wrote this years ago before becoming a mother. Yet, I loved to share.

“No two persons ever read the same book.”
― Edmund Wilson

I guess Wilson is right. Reading is not just what you read, it is a mixture of what you are already thinking of, how you imagine stuff, how you interrupt and last the book’s words.

Reading “How to kill a Mockingbird” for Harper Lee, I was captured by Scout’s first day at…

We have been watching what has been happening in Jerusalem for the last month. It all started with Sheikh Jarrah, where many Palestinians suffered from land thieves evicting them from their homes. I explained the story in an earlier post if you haven’t been reading the news from day one. Settlers decided to take Palestinian homes even before the court results, and Israeli forces killed Palestinians during their holy month while worshiping at the mosque. Later on, Hamas — who the news calls a terrorist group — decided to defend Sheikh Jarrah and the Palestinians in Jerusalem who were being…

I graduated in 2014 as a fresh software engineer. I loved teaching, in the same way I loved coding. So I decided to apply for the teaching assistant position at my university, and I taught a couple of courses until 2017 besides doing my main job as a freelancer at Upwork.

I loved my teaching experience, and I love communicating with different students through these courses. Yet I was surprised by the many things I noticed that I had never noticed as a student, and I guess I would have never noticed them without teaching in the field. In this…

Most software engineers have eight hours dedicated to work daily. Yet, how they progress through these hours differs a lot. Some people are ready for the next promotion in one year, while others may take many years to reach the next level. Most programmers’ working hours are wasted in headaches, stress, brain blocks, and boredom. Planning for these moments would change the life of any programmer. In this article, I will share some ideas to get more done in the same working hours.

1. Have Two To-Do Lists

Having a to-do list is a great productivity hack. It helps you to focus and to conquer…

Perhaps you have seen the structures in the picture above before; perhaps you know what they are and what they mean to billions of Muslims around the world. But in case you don’t: There, in the heart of Jerusalem, is the third most holy place to more than 1.8 billion Muslims around the globe. This place is Al-Aqsa Mosque, it is not just the structures, it is the whole area that the Jewish name Temple Mount. At Al-Aqsa Mosque, Muslims have been praying and worshiping their Creator over there for more than a millennium. …

Looking at the brief history of the world and how it changed over the past few centuries, you’ll notice that nothing remains on top forever. Including people, countries, civilizations, and companies. Did you hear about the Dutch East India company? It’s considered the largest company in recorded history, where is it today? The world is rapidly changing and it’s impossible to predict what will happen in the next few years.

We are moving from one era to another, a decade ago, it was about oil. Yet now, it is computing. A field like AI is believed to be the new…