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Is AI actually destroying the job market for fresh graduates? In this episode, Ghalib Hasam returns to the podcast to break down the harsh reality of the post-AI job market, why the traditional "Apply Now" button is dead, and exactly how to use cold outreach to land high-paying remote US jobs from Pakistan.

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On the TBT Podcast, we constantly explore how macroeconomic shifts and technological revolutions impact our lives. Today, we go beyond the theory. I share my vulnerable, real-time journey of moving to America, leaving my comfortable life in Pakistan behind, and getting brutally rejected while doing door-to-door sales for my AI automation business. If you want to survive the upcoming economic shifts and dollarize your income, you need to kill your ego, stop buying useless courses, and learn how to build real international leverage.

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How do you move past the AI hype cycle and actually build something real? In this update, I break down exactly how I used Claude Code, Google Gemini, and autonomous AI agents to build a "Second Brain" that runs my business 24/7. From automating my YouTube comment replies to having a team of AI agents code an entire operating system from scratch, this is what the future of work looks like.

On the TBT Podcast, we talk a lot about the changing macroeconomic landscape and technology adoption. While Pakistan is rapidly waking up to the AI revolution, the real value isn't in just using chatbots - it's in deploying autonomous agents to solve real-world problems. Today, I’m showing you the unpolished, behind-the-scenes reality of building an AI automation agency, including getting humbled while trying to sell these systems door-to-door to small businesses in America.

Chapters:

Intro: AI Adoption in Pakistan & Escaping the Hype Cycle

How I Transcribed 550 Podcast Episodes for FREE (Gemini API)

Building My "Second Brain" (Inspired by Andrej Karpathy)

Automating YouTube Comments with an AI Clone of Myself

From Loops to Headless Agents: Hiring an AI CMO & SEO Team

Graph Engineering: My Agents Built a Software Platform By Themselves!

Arc Recon: Scraping Maps to Score Local Business Leads

Door-to-Door Sales in America: Getting Rejected & Humbled

Virtual Machines & Deploying AI Systems for Clients

Live Tracking My Company Stats

Stop Buying Courses, Start Building (Join the Community)

Kanit Khalilullah explains why Pakistan's debt-based banking system is a bigger trap than cryptocurrency, and how full reserve banking could eliminate domestic debt.

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Kanit Khalilullah returns to explain the real crisis behind Pakistan's economy: fractional reserve banking. While Mufti Taqi Usmani's recent fatwa against cryptocurrency made headlines, the elephant in the room is how commercial banks create money out of thin air through debt, inflating the currency supply by 50% in just three years.

Pakistan's domestic debt has ballooned from 5 trillion to 55 trillion rupees in 15 years. Every month, the government borrows 500 billion rupees from banks and immediately pays it back as interest, feeding a cycle that now consumes 60% of tax revenue. By 2032, debt payments will eat 93% of the federal budget. Kanit argues that full reserve banking, where the state controls money creation, could eliminate domestic debt, end inflation, and restore economic stability.

This is not theoretical. His book, Breaking the Trap of Debt, Inflation, Interest, and Poverty, has been reviewed by 20 economists and bankers, including the deputy chairman of Faysal Bank and Arif Habib. The solution exists. The question is whether Pakistan's policymakers, military leadership, and religious scholars will confront the system that benefits a few at the expense of 250 million people.

Chapters:

0:00 Mufti Taqi Usmani's cryptocurrency fatwa and the real debate

5:10 Why Bitcoin is not currency but speculation

11:35 Bitcoin as a hedge against dollar liquidity

15:47 Gold standard vs fractional reserve banking

20:00 How Pakistan's debt jumped 31 to 46 trillion in 3 years

28:58 93% of federal budget will go to debt by 2032

1:06:24 The book that could end Pakistan's debt trap

1:08:35 Have policymakers, army, or clergy responded?

1:14:27 Islamic banking's cosmetic wrappers on the same system

1:18:11 DG Budgets Pakistan Army's 2032 debt projection

1:22:04 Next steps: advocacy, courts, and awareness

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Hafiz Ahmed shares his journey from a UK warehouse packer to building a million-dollar Amazon FBA business, then losing it overnight and rebuilding in Pakistan.

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Hafiz Ahmed built a £600,000 Amazon FBA business from a £300 starting investment, then lost it all overnight when his partner locked him out. In this conversation, he walks through his entire journey: leaving rural Bahawalpur for the UK on a student visa, working 18-hour shifts in Amazon warehouses and gas stations, spotting the opportunity to sell on Amazon himself, and scaling one product (a V-pillow) to 1,500 orders a day. He explains how he came back to Pakistan, restarted with zero capital, and built multiple income streams in e-commerce, trading, and services.

We talk about what actually works on Amazon in 2025, how AI is changing e-commerce workflows, why personal branding matters more than ads, and what the next 25 years look like for Pakistanis earning in dollars. Hafiz also shares the fraud he faced, the lessons he learned, and why he believes anyone with domain knowledge can use AI to 10x their output. If you're in e-commerce, thinking about Amazon FBA, or trying to figure out how to earn in dollars from Pakistan, this is the conversation.

Chapters:

0:00 Introduction: Hafiz Ahmed's journey and why we're talking now

2:15 Early life in Bahawalpur and moving to Lahore

4:32 Going to the UK on a student visa with no plan to study

8:16 From warehouse packer to Amazon seller: the first product

13:13 What a V-pillow is and how one product built a house in Lahore

16:49 Losing the £600k business overnight: partner fraud

19:39 Restarting from zero in Pakistan in 2017

20:26 How Sunny Ali and Saqib Azhar brought me back into Amazon

22:35 What I'm doing now: products, services, and multiple income streams

25:29 Amazon margins explained: why million-dollar sales don't mean profit

46:00 Why I moved to the US and what changed

1:05:00 Personal branding vs paid ads: what actually compounds

1:25:58 How AI is changing e-commerce and who benefits most

1:34:47 What I see for Pakistan in 2050 and why dollar income matters

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The world of software engineering is changing faster than we realize, and the AI tools we are building might be leading us into a massive financial bubble.

In this episode of Thought Behind Things, Muzamil sits down with Ahmad Awais, the founder and CEO of Command Code, to uncover the reality of the global AI race. Ahmad shares his incredible journey from an electrical engineering student in Multan to an award-winning open-source developer who contributed to the NASA Mars Ingenuity Helicopter mission.

We do a deep dive into the underlying tokenomics of AI models, why API inference costs are artificially inflated, and how open-source platforms are fundamentally disrupting the monopolies of Silicon Valley tech giants. Ahmad also sheds light on his frontier coding agent, Command Code, and the lack of branding and community support for Pakistani builders on the global stage.

If you want to understand the true cost of the AI boom, how developers are adapting, and what the future of software looks like, you cannot afford to miss this conversation.

Topics Covered:

Ahmad's unconventional path from Multan to Silicon Valley

•⁠ ⁠The truth behind AI tokenomics and API inference costs

•⁠ ⁠Why the current AI landscape resembles the dot-com bubble

•⁠ ⁠How open-source models are challenging closed ecosystems

•⁠ ⁠The branding problem for Pakistani tech talent on the global stage

•⁠ ⁠How Command Code is making coding agents accessible to the next billion developers

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I spent the last 8 years entirely away from coding, dealing with imposter syndrome and fearing that software engineers were going to leave the rest of us behind in the AI era. But over the last two weeks, my mind has been completely blown.

In just 5 days, working alone, I built a fully functional platform that would have easily cost me $30,000 to $40,000 and taken months of back-and-forth with a traditional software house. And I did it all without writing a single line of code myself.

In this video, I am pulling back the curtain on the true power of AI for non-technical domain experts. If you know how your industry works - whether you are a creator, a doctor, or a lawyer - you now have the ultimate advantage because the middleman is dead.

In this video, we cover:

•⁠ ⁠The AI Brain: How I indexed 7.5 MILLION spoken words from my YouTube channel to create an automated content machine.

•⁠ ⁠The Replit vs. Claude Code Truth: Why I accidentally burned $500 in 4 days, and the 3-hour process I used (with Gemini's help) to move everything to Claude Code.

•⁠ ⁠The End of Software Engineers?: Why a domain expert talking to an AI can build a better product in 5 days than an engineer can in 50 days.

•⁠ ⁠The Wealth Bubble: Why you need to stop acting broke, invest $20 in your tools, and capture this massive opportunity before the bubble bursts.

•⁠ ⁠The Reveal: A live screen-share of the exact platform I built with zero technical background.

The "Utopia vs. Dystopia" debate is a distraction. The real opportunity is in combining these tools to solve real-world problems. You cannot afford to miss this cycle!

Let me know in the comments: Are you actively building with tools like Claude Code, or are you still stuck in the "free" chatbot world? What is your use case? Let's discuss!

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The Hidden System Controlling the World (And How It Ends) | Simon Dixon on Thought Behind Things

The world is changing faster than we can comprehend, and the narratives we're being fed by the media are just theatrics. In this explosive episode of Thought Behind Things, Muzamil sits down with geopolitical and financial analyst Simon Dixon to uncover the hidden power dynamics shaping our future.

Simon breaks down how the world is truly run by transnational capital and the Financial Industrial Complex—and why the American Empire is intentionally being asset-stripped to usher in a new multipolar world order. From the covert operations that fuel the Military Industrial Complex to the hidden reasons behind the conflicts in the Middle East, this conversation will completely shatter your understanding of global politics.

We also dive deep into Pakistan's crucial role in this transition, why the AI stock market boom is a massive wealth extraction scheme, and why holding your own Bitcoin keys is the only way to escape the incoming global surveillance state.

If you want to understand the real reasons behind global wars, inflation, and the shifting power from West to East, you cannot afford to miss this.

Topics Covered:

The secret history of Transnational Capital (From the Dutch Empire to the US)

The Financial, Military, and Technical Industrial Complexes

Why the US is intentionally losing its grip on the world

The truth about the Middle East conflicts and the Gulf States' master plan

Pakistan's unique leverage in the new Multipolar World Order

How China built a financial fortress the West cannot penetrate

The AI bubble, SpaceX, and the incoming stock market crash

Why Wall Street is trying to steal your Bitcoin (and how to protect it)

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AI is disrupting the job market, but the biggest wealth transfer of our generation isn't just happening on Earth - it’s happening in Space. 🚀

For decades, we thought the Space industry was just for government agencies like NASA or PhD-level rocket scientists. But just like the IT boom of the 90s and 2000s, the Space Economy is undergoing a massive deflation in costs. SpaceX's reusable rockets are driving the cost of sending payloads to orbit from thousands of dollars down to $1500/kg, and eventually to $10/kg.

What does this mean for you? It means a projected $6 Trillion industry by 2050. It means zero-gravity manufacturing, orbital data centers, commercial space stations, and lunar bases are becoming an economic reality.

In this video, we break away from the "doom and gloom" anxiety-selling on social media to focus on genuine, high-growth opportunities. We discuss why engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Materials) is far from dead, how the "SpaceX Mafia" is funding the next wave of startups, and how students and professionals from Pakistan, India, and beyond can position themselves for this massive technological shift.

Stop panicking about the future. Let's prepare for it.

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Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire, and SpaceX’s IPO shattered records with a $2 Trillion valuation. But is this the dawn of a new space economy, or the most elaborate financial trap in history?

In this video, we unpack the harsh reality behind the SpaceX IPO that Wall Street doesn't want you to see. While the headlines scream about innovation, the numbers tell a different story: SpaceX is currently sitting on a massive $5 Billion loss against $18 Billion in revenue. We break down the exact price-to-earnings (P/E) ratios and compare SpaceX’s fundamentals to tech giants like Nvidia, Apple, and TSMC to show you why this valuation is dangerously inflated.

For Pakistani investors, tech freelancers, and businessmen, it is easy to get caught up in the FOMO and "double Shah" schemes. But we are connecting the dots to reveal the hidden agenda:

•⁠ ⁠How the SpaceX IPO is actually a massive bailout for elite investors stuck in the X (Twitter) and xAI acquisitions.

•⁠ ⁠The unprecedented financial engineering, including NASDAQ bypassing its 1-year price discovery rule to just 15 days.

•⁠ ⁠How 30% of the initial stock float is targeting retail investors to use them as exit liquidity while insiders quietly dump their shares.

•⁠ ⁠The engineering reality behind Elon's promise to build "AI Data Centers in Space".

Stop chasing the short-term pumps and dumps. Learn how to disconnect the tech innovation from the financial noise, avoid the upcoming market crash, and position yourself for genuine, long-term wealth creation over the next 20 years.

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