My guest today is Mahmoud Mousa.

He's an Egyptian mechanical engineer by degree and a software developer by choice. He lived in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Malaysia and now resides in Sydney, Australia.

Mahmoud has many layers. He's a blogger, a philosopher, a realist, a cancer survivor and an expat.

In this episode, we discuss career shifts, learning to code, being an ambivert, passion vs reality, our lockdown experiences and more...

Mahmoud mentioned a couple of interesting reads:

- Scott Galloway's "The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning": https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/42872963-the-algebra-of-happiness

"Market dynamics will almost always trump individual talents."

- "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning

"You shouldn't ask what's the meaning of life. You should rather realize that life is always asking you, what meaning do you wanna make out of today? And that will give you those small meanings day after day, but the grand meaning can only be found with your core beliefs, basically religion, and also the grand meaning that you can comprehend can be found at the end of your life. Just like in a movie, every scene makes sense, but you can never understand the full movie until the end."

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Follow Mahmoud on twitter:

https://twitter.com/MahmMousa

His journey with Cancer and more of his amazing thoughts: 

https://medium.com/@ishe7ata

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