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Neither do you.Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://alihafezi.ca/most-important-questions-you-will-ever-ask/https://alihafezi.ca/most-important-questions-you-will-ever-ask/If you read one thing this year, read this. It will rewire what you ask of your life.Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://alihafezi.ca/hunt-questions-not-answers/https://alihafezi.ca/hunt-questions-not-answers/Why every guru, podcast, and self-help book leaves you in the same hallway. The quality of your life is the quality of your questions. Hunt the questions. Not the answers.Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://alihafezi.ca/the-gift-of-crisis/https://alihafezi.ca/the-gift-of-crisis/You will not change. Not yet. Not while it is still bearable. Not while the old way still works just well enough.Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://alihafezi.ca/not-your-fault-you-were-probably-just-unlucky/https://alihafezi.ca/not-your-fault-you-were-probably-just-unlucky/If you weren't a huge success, it's not your fault. 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You don't know where to start.Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://alihafezi.ca/find-your-hell-yeah-when-work-becomes-play/https://alihafezi.ca/find-your-hell-yeah-when-work-becomes-play/The most important and difficult task in life is to discover what is truly yours, and have the courage to follow it.Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://alihafezi.ca/hegemons-mirage-2026-war-on-iran/https://alihafezi.ca/hegemons-mirage-2026-war-on-iran/The unprecedented military confrontation that erupted in early 2026 between the United States, Israel, and the Islamic Republic of Iran marks a permanent, tectoSat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://alihafezi.ca/your-career-is-a-flywheel/https://alihafezi.ca/your-career-is-a-flywheel/Most people think about career advancement in a straight line: work hard → get noticed → get promoted.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://alihafezi.ca/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it/https://alihafezi.ca/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it/Originally published in the Harvard Business Review on February 9, 2026, by Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye.Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://alihafezi.ca/jevons-paradox-irreducible-human-skills/https://alihafezi.ca/jevons-paradox-irreducible-human-skills/Based on 13 short video clips by Helen Edwards, co-founder of The Artificiality InstituteSat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://alihafezi.ca/mit-eeg-caps-on-chatgpt-users/https://alihafezi.ca/mit-eeg-caps-on-chatgpt-users/A research team at MIT Media Lab just published a 216-page preprint that should reframe how every knowledge worker thinks about AI.Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT