Rami's Universe

  • My Areas
    • My Areas
    • My Building
    • My Content Creation
    • My Fitness
    • My Hobbies
    • My Improv
    • My Learning
    • My Second Brain
    • My Soul
    • My Travels
  • My Greenhouse
    • 'there's more of me when I'm connected to you'
    • 2 ways you can bond with people
    • 393 reflection after learning strategies presentations
    • A better way to interview strangers
    • A Habit That Changed How I Connect With People
    • Acting like you're having fun
    • Am I wrong for sharing my sins to the world
    • AMA with prof Erik
    • AMA with Prof Erik pt2
    • Amazing things happen to people everyday
    • Any human connection can endure any how
    • Approaching timeleft - another social app
    • Art therapy can reveal your unconscious thoughts
    • Asking better questions
    • Associating your home with negative emotions
    • Assume everyone is kind hearted
    • Asymptotic notations
    • Automation reflection presentation
    • Balance the donya and 2a5ira
    • Be an extremely slow thinker
    • Be friends with the cold
    • Beginnings and endings are the same
    • Being a good leader is hard
    • Being a Muslim alone is hard
    • Being a side character in everyone else's life
    • Being even more unfiltered
    • Being perceived as desperate for using my app
    • Being slow in BJJ
    • Best thing to do in the mountains alone
    • Best way to get out of your head in social situations
    • Biggest indicator of wealth
    • Build microstartups
    • Building a location sharing application with privacy, efficiency, UX, and cost in mind
    • Camping in the cold ain't easy
    • Can't bother talking to ppl I don't align with
    • Carpe diem everyday
    • Carry all the people that love you everywhere you go
    • change is always good
    • Chatbots and social connection
    • Completion mindset is stressing me out
    • Consumer Social resources
    • Context switching is costly
    • convo topics pitch 1 notes
    • Correlation between performance and importance
    • Creating a curiosity gap to Make users use Orbit
    • Creativity is so important
    • crying after remembering mama
    • Customer Journey Map
    • Customer Journey of using Orbit
    • dealing with cancellation of meetups
    • Death is around the corner
    • Delaying decisions continue to hurt me
    • Depending on other senses when you have less
    • Dilemma between working alone or joining a group
    • Do I show enthusiasm when presenting
    • Do they want to talk about it
    • Don't force things with women
    • Don't let others deal with the consequences of your failures
    • dump
    • Earphones isolate you
    • Earphones kill spontaneity and curiosity
    • eating habits here vs back home
    • elevator pitch reflection
    • Emotionless decisions
    • Emotions are essential to remember things
    • Empower rather than educate
    • Europe vs Canada
    • Every business is built on a secret
    • Everyone has a 'project' they work on in their teens
    • Everyone is annoying but that's okay
    • Everyone wants to talk
    • Everything revolves around habits
    • Expectations shape our reality
    • Extendability is the future of software
    • Failed attempt in interviewing strangers
    • Failing in hackathons
    • Fear of regret
    • Feeling like a performer
    • Feeling stressed and it's effects on my body
    • Felt weak while playing basketball
    • Finally experiencing what it means to be a foreigner
    • Find cool people early on in new places
    • First impressions
    • First time feeling powerful in Jiu Jitsu
    • Focus on your weaknesses
    • friction
    • Friends limit you
    • Fucked up the first day in Berlin
    • Genius is the opposite of expectation
    • Germany exchange program essays
    • Getting tired is our default in the dark
    • Goldilocks principle with women as well
    • Good things take time
    • Greedy Algorithms
    • Group presentation reflection
    • Hard to make content in Dubai
    • Haven't been mindful whatsoever in the past month
    • How Appwrite relationships work
    • How does the requesting system work? The rules
    • How I ensure that I have a good Convo with someone
    • How I managed to stop undervaluing myself
    • How I overcame shyness and social anxiety
    • How improv helps with speaking clearly
    • How it feels to be sick
    • How it feels to live a purposeless life
    • How my social battery works
    • How Orbit is different from other social apps
    • How to be socially authentic
    • How to be the center of attention
    • How to build your app with EAS
    • How to fit in when yr the odd one out
    • How to fit when around foreigners
    • How to get yourself to sleep early
    • How to grow your B2C
    • How to make every second count and not waste time
    • How to make friends in the gym
    • How to make your voice music to people's ears
    • How you start shapes the rest of your journey
    • I am a man of purpose
    • I am responsible for my wife's longevity
    • I am scared of looking at people when I talk
    • I am slowly becoming charismatic like adam
    • I basically secured a TA job
    • I can't get myself to do things. I'm not intrinsically motivated to do
    • I don't like giving gifts
    • I don't like skateboarding to class
    • I don't like too much business
    • I don't treat time very well
    • I feel naked and I love it
    • I got too many responsibilities in my hand
    • I haven't fully battled all my porn demons
    • I miss building a friendship
    • I naturally choose dissatisfaction
    • I need powerful men around me
    • I should have home court advantage
    • I struggle to connect thoughts while speaking
    • I suck at storytelling
    • I wanna always be connected with the world
    • I wanna bond with everyone around me
    • I wanna help people approach women
    • I want to feel in control in a conversation
    • I'm a chronic maximizer
    • I'm an influencer
    • I'm close to self-actualization
    • I'm not perfect but that's okay
    • I'm so average - I'm not gifted
    • I'm so good at one-on-one conversations
    • I'm so good at remembering people
    • I'm sometimes very cautious and sometimes very careless
    • I'm sprouting with creative thoughts these days
    • I'm still scared of silence in conversations
    • If you die
    • Ikigai
    • Im
    • Importance of being friends with yourself
    • Improv trains you to always be ready for whatever
    • Inclined towards action when encountering new knowledge
    • Increasing my openness through listening to more music
    • individual presentation reflection
    • Ineffective work sessions
    • Investigate the people you respect
    • Ironically achieved my new year's resolution
    • Irrational friction
    • Irrational or extrinsic motivations for doing things
    • Irrational with time
    • Is it a never-ending cycle of noticing your parents flaws
    • It really is who you surround yourself with
    • It's crucial for new students to feel like they belong
    • It's Way Too Isolating Out Here And I Wanna Change That
    • Jumping to different topics while talking
    • Keep digging on these passion projects
    • Ken - user journey
    • Kinda struggling with socializing
    • Last day in Toronto felt so normal
    • Learning to enjoy the journey
    • Leave big decisions for the next day
    • Less interested in improv
    • Life with no prioritization sucks
    • LinkedIn post after IBM
    • main things I will focus on for 393 automations
    • Make everything you say a story
    • make them say yes before selling them
    • Make them speak when asking someone something
    • Make your interviewee your top priority
    • Make your videos have more personality
    • making the best of your opportunities
    • Mark - user journey
    • Meaning of Rooots
    • Men stop growing when they have a woman
    • Mindful consumption comes from planning ahead
    • Most people have some sort of purpose
    • MOZI?!
    • MST
    • MST 2
    • Music is the devil in disguise
    • My 3 areas of interest within Gen AI
    • My brain needs proof to believe
    • my business model
    • My current life mission
    • My Greenhouse
    • My love language
    • My message to a funder
    • My morals are being tested
    • My muscle of approaching strangers is weakening
    • My new bad end-of-day habit
    • My time now is so valuable
    • My Value Proposition
    • Named Entity Recognition (NER)
    • New found green flag
    • No more being held back by anyone or anything
    • No one has a why
    • Not dropping everything I decide to drop
    • Not inclined to interview ppl in big cities
    • Noticing the power of being calm in bjj
    • Now is the time to expand your network
    • Observant not = creepy
    • One thing that clearly sets me apart
    • only following my values when it's easy
    • Only work with a vision in mind
    • Orbit final presentation outline
    • Orbit manifesto transcript
    • Orbit onboarding questions
    • Orbit pains & gains
    • Orbit tasks
    • Orbit's new vision n mission
    • Order of info I want the user to know of the other person
    • Parkinson's law
    • People are not able to listen
    • People are scared to be alone
    • People often continue convos in EU
    • People wanna connect
    • People wanna have meaningful conversations but never do
    • Perform at my best when I'm a leader
    • Personality getting an upgrade in Lebanon
    • pornography causes you to be irritable
    • Post Wispr Flow call reflection
    • Pressure to have things figured out
    • Pressured to do things in Europe
    • Problem with consumer products
    • profile pics should not exist in Orbit
    • Prompt crafting framework
    • quitting porn is not enough
    • recursion
    • redirecting your sexual urges
    • Rejection is making me stronger
    • Relying on people and people relying on me
    • Rooots Elevator Pitch
    • Sales in startups
    • Science vs humanities
    • Seeking discomfort is a habit everyone should grow
    • Self-Awareness and it's importance in overcoming pornography
    • Selfish reasons for interviewing people
    • Set expectations in interviews
    • Should you buy after and earnings report
    • Should you have high expectations
    • Simon sinek thinks he's a failure
    • Societal expectations don't affect me
    • Some people don't want a platform
    • Something is better than nothing in improv
    • Sometimes tech is not the solution
    • Sometimes you're just horny for excitement
    • Standing up for myself
    • Startup crash course guest speaker
    • Stay in the moment when presenting
    • Stick to being around people who love us
    • Stopping yourself from doing things you wanna do
    • Stopping yourself from talking to woman
    • Stress is making me not wanna socialize
    • Strive for certainty when traveling
    • Struggling to enjoy my time in groups
    • Struggling to share bout myself
    • Study plan
    • Take a wider perspective when stuck
    • Taking an outside perspective on your thoughts
    • task - Finding A Request To Approve
    • task - Onboarding Users into the App (Providing Personal Information & University ID Verification)
    • task - Organizing a Meetup After Matching (Mark & Ken)
    • task - Seamless & Easy Process to Block or Report Malicious Users
    • task - Send Requests To Meet Up
    • task - Updating Personal Information & Preferences After Account Creation
    • The average man sucks
    • The biggest confidence boosting activity
    • The culture map
    • The drugs of the gulf
    • The first song is stuck in my head
    • The friendship making paradox
    • the gym is my playground
    • The importance of reflections
    • The importance of writing
    • The more attractive she is the better I speak
    • The one-person business model
    • The only 2 things that I want from life
    • The only way not to get nervous when talking to women
    • The power of empathy
    • The power of habits script
    • The principle of uncertainty
    • The purpose is real
    • The request should have a clear goal
    • The right way to boulder
    • The storming phase of creating a team
    • The world is your playground
    • There are gaps and business opportunities everywhere
    • There are several ways to give compliments
    • There's nothing left to do but launch
    • There's so much to talk about
    • Things to keep in mind for interview videos
    • Things would be much easier if I let go
    • Thinking clearly in the morning
    • Time over money
    • TMI in convos
    • Too scared to show my own emotions
    • Trust in humanity
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    • Use the crowd to learn something
    • use tools to your advantage when presenting
    • Using the pen is the day you lose your childhood
    • Value can be created effortlessly
    • Vim reflections
    • Waiting for permission to be who you wanna be
    • Walking around campus is so stimulating
    • Wanting to interview people stops me from having deep convos
    • Warmth vs competence
    • Wasn't the best version of myself in Stanford
    • We are addicted to being present
    • We are never satisfied by break times
    • We love talking about ourselves
    • We naturally wanna be useful to people
    • Weaken the muscles of your bad habits
    • Weird but effective way to fall asleep
    • What are others not doing that you are
    • What do mothers live for
    • What I learned using launchd
    • What I need to excel at communication
    • What is design thinking
    • What is ego death
    • What is my Ikigai - am I on the right path
    • What is Orbit really
    • What is peak friendship
    • What is peak purpose
    • What it takes to achieve mastery
    • What people actually spend money on
    • What should I do during my breaks
    • What skiing taught me about B2B sales
    • What stops me from socializing with strangers
    • What technical founders are bad at
    • what the prof wants us to learn
    • What to build in the age of AI
    • What would other people do if they had your powers
    • When to have eye contact when speaking
    • Where anxiety comes from
    • Where I get my energy from
    • Why do I enjoy content creation
    • Why do I love offering kindness to strangers more than close ones
    • Why do I not feel in control during important video calls
    • Why I learn the way I learn
    • Why I should sleep more
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    • Why I wanna automate things
    • Why I'm stagnating
    • Why is being an entrepreneur harder than a 9to5
    • Why journaling helps with falling asleep
    • Why learning how to take in feedback is important
    • Why people sit alone in DC
    • Why teammates sometimes don't do the work
    • Why work on convo topics now
    • Why you should fundraise
    • Winning vs losing
    • Working out when sick is essential
    • Wrong mindset in finding a partner
    • You can learn to hate unhealthy things
    • You can't educate people as a startup
    • You have the answers
    • You need excitement in your life to battle bad habits
    • You're the boss, you're in control when presenting
    • Your brand is your promise
    • Your Porn Addiction Ends With This Video
    • Zone of genius
  • My Habits
    • Meditation
    • My Habits
  • My Inputs
    • My Articles
      • Konik Method for Making Useful Notes
      • My Articles
      • The 3-Part Daily Routine For Maximum Productivity
      • Why AI didn't save us during COVID
    • My Books
      • As Long As The Lemon Trees Grow
      • Atomic Habits
      • Building a Second Brain
      • Hell Yes or No
      • How Not To Die Alone
      • Influence - The Psychology Of Persuasion
      • Into thin air
      • Lord Of The Flies
      • Make it Stick
      • My Books
      • Sapiens
      • The courage to be disliked
      • The third door
      • When Breath Becomes Air
      • Zero to one (boardy edition)
    • My Podcasts
      • My Podcasts
    • My Videos
      • How to turn your notes into published articles and books using the Obsidian app with Eleanor Konik
      • My Videos
      • Obsidian Bookmarks - Save your place, save your headspace
    • My Inputs
  • My Outputs
    • My AI Prompts
      • Clean Transcript
      • Make Note Actionable
    • My Book Applications
      • Atomic Habits Application
      • Building a Second Brain Application
      • Hell Yes or No Application
      • How not to die alone Application
      • Influence - The Psychology Of Persuasion Application
      • Into thin air Application
      • Lord Of The Flies Application
      • Make it Stick Application
      • My Book Applications
      • Sapiens Application
      • The courage to be disliked Application
      • The third door Application
      • When Breath Becomes Air Application
      • Zero to one (boardy edition) Application
    • My Brainstorms
      • My Brainstorms
      • Video outline for new Obsidian video
    • My Essays
      • ⌨️ 2nd reach out to Interaction Company
      • ⌨️ Approaching Agentuity
      • ⌨️ Approaching Boardy
      • ⌨️ Approaching Fizz social
      • ⌨️ Approaching Series
      • ⌨️ Entrepreneurs First Application
      • ⌨️ Extreme dares with strangers in my university - reddit post
      • ⌨️ Final ask to Mozi
      • ⌨️ LAHacks LinkedIn post
      • ⌨️ LinkedIn Post on Orbit manifesto
      • ⌨️ Permission to enroll into ENTI courses
      • ⌨️ Reddit post on Orbit manifesto
      • ⌨️ Thiel Fellowship Application
      • ⌨️ UCalgary scholarship
      • ⌨️ Z Fellows application - v0
      • ⌨️ Z Fellows application - v1
      • 1517fund application
      • Afore Grant
      • Approaching interaction.co
      • Approaching Kardder
      • Approaching Mozi
      • Breaking Barriers to Reflection - A GenAI-Driven Approach to Journaling
      • Cannon Lachapelle Award - v1
      • Cannon Lachapelle Award - v2
      • Cannon Lachapelle Award - v3
      • DAIN internship application
      • Dash application
      • Exo app store
      • Exo launch posts
      • Exposing all my failures to the world for an entire week😵
      • Final try to get into YC AI SUS LinkedIn post
      • Founders Inc. Off Season application - v1
      • Founders Inc. Off Season application - v2
      • FR8 hacker house application
      • HackAI Toronto application - v1
      • HackAI Toronto application - v2
      • Hunter hub application
      • Innovation sandbox membership application
      • LAHacks application
      • LocalHostHQ fellowship application
      • My Essays
      • Notion internship application
      • prompt template variations
      • reaching out to Decoda Health
      • Reddit post to noFap for part 1 porn vid
      • Telora application
      • TreeHacks 2025
      • UC Berkeley AI Hackathon
      • UCalgary CA application
      • UCalgary Recovery Community
      • UCalgary recovery community scholarship
      • Wealthsimple application
      • XX Fellowship
      • YC AI startup school application - v1
      • YC AI startup school application - v2
    • My Poems
      • 🖋️ Porn.
      • 🖋️ Set Fire To The Rain
      • the paths
      • What I could've had
    • My Recognitions
      • My Recognitions
      • Sina post-IBM recognition note
    • My YouTube Scripts
      • 🎬 Orbit Manifesto
      • 🎬 Seeking discomfort
      • Earphones isolate you
      • How to instantly fall asleep
      • Power of momentum
      • The power of habits script
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      • Why are you so horny
      • Why you should quit porn outro
    • My Outputs
  • My Resources
    • My Maps of Content (MOCs)
      • Addiction
      • App Development
      • Approaching Strangers
      • Asking Questions🗣️
      • Authenticity
      • Automation
      • BJJ
      • Business
      • Calmness
      • Charisma
      • Communication
      • Confidence
      • Courage
      • Curiosity
      • Decision making
      • Deep work
      • Discipline
      • Dopamine
      • Ego
      • Emotion
      • Energy
      • Entrepreneurship
      • Expectations
      • Experimenting
      • Family
      • Fear
      • Flow state
      • Focus
      • Friendship
      • Growth Mindset
      • Habits
      • Hackathons
      • Improv
      • Introvert
      • Investing
      • Islam
      • Jiu Jitsu
      • journaling
      • Leadership
      • Life
      • Loneliness
      • Love
      • Lucid Dreams
      • Marketing
      • Masculinity
      • Metalearning
      • Mindfulness
      • Music
      • My Maps of Content (MOCs)
      • NoFap
      • Obsidian
      • Parenting
      • People
      • Persistence
      • Pornography
      • Power
      • Presence
      • Public speaking
      • Purpose
      • Reflection
      • Relationships
      • Running
      • Sales
      • Seeking discomfort
      • Self
      • Self-actualization
      • Sleep
      • Social intelligence
      • Socialization
      • Sociology
      • Stoicism
      • Storytelling
      • stress
      • Time
      • Trust
      • University
      • Women
      • Working out
    • Life Design
    • My Resources
    • Personal Knowledge Management
    • Productivity
  • My Thoughts
    • 2024 reflection
    • Alone in how I feel about people
    • Alternative name ideas for Rooots
    • Always ensure waiters get the tips
    • Always striving to connect with people around me on campus
    • Amsterdam trip
    • An example of being socially inauthentic
    • Anonymously complement strangers
    • Approached by a dude trying to enter France illegally
    • Approaching strangers in Arabic is harder than approaching in English
    • Asking if they get the tips before tipping
    • Bavarian Alps solo trip
    • Being more aggressive when speaking Lebanese
    • Border control in EU
    • Brainstorming video ideas to help first year students
    • Bringing back the location real time stuff for orbit
    • CalHacks
    • Canada should have these morning bakeries
    • Conversation with Klaus during lunch
    • CPSC393 week 1 reflection
    • Crazy how things worked out in the end
    • current state of Rooots
    • Day 3 Halifax Kejimukujik
    • Definition of obstacle
    • Delayed trip leads to missing my train to Munich
    • End of learning Vim reflection
    • Even more motivated to build orbit
    • Faced with a morally revealing situation
    • Failed to rizz someone up
    • Feeling of belongingness in Jiu Jitsu
    • Final 393 reflection
    • Final day in Toronto
    • Final morning in Berlin - rushing again😩
    • Finding people who are willing to sing Hamilton
    • First day in Halifax
    • First Orbit user testing session
    • First time interviewing random people in public
    • Getting better at seizing opportunities that come up throughout my day
    • Had the worst productivity this month
    • Homeless people offering food to the birds
    • How can I make the most of Lebanon
    • Humanity let me down
    • I can't get myself to be mindful
    • I can't stand watching people being taken advantage of
    • I could have been part of an orchestra
    • I don't like coming home late at night
    • I felt so daring during my first UCalgary improv show
    • I have a torn meniscus
    • I have found product-user fit
    • I looked at myself in a dream
    • I love that manakish here are relatively cheap
    • I need to empathize with myself more
    • I showed someone their hidden potential in the gym
    • I wanna learn French
    • I wanna learn Vim motions
    • I wanna spice up someone's date
    • I'm extremely overwhelmed
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    • I'm navigating uncharted territories in my entrepreneurship journey
    • I'm putting myself in uncomfortable situations
    • Initial thoughts on USA and SF
    • Interesting experience in the government building
    • Invested in a conversation in the airport and lost
    • It's not about the technology, it's about the relationship
    • Lady reading Atomic Habits in the subway
    • Layover in Montréal
    • Layover in Qatar
    • learning Vim reflection - week 3
    • Lebanese women are crazy
    • me putting myself out there
    • Meniscus repair and lose body removal surgery
    • Met a dude with 4 wives and 9 kids
    • Moving forward with Exo
    • My biggest weakness in Jiu Jitsu
    • My experience being in treehacks and Stanford
    • My first negotiation (for my bike)
    • My Lebanese personality talks a lot
    • My one and only party night in Berlin
    • My relatives are not good listeners
    • My Thoughts
    • Next steps for Rooots
    • No long-term friendship created in Berlin yet
    • Nuremberg layover
    • One night layover in Vancouver
    • Orbit finally announced
    • Orbit thoughts while running
    • Orbit's journey is gonna be a crazy one
    • Parenting is hard and kids are annoying
    • Possible future for Orbit
    • Post cruise interview realizations
    • Post-cruise video upload
    • Presenting my first Ted talk in the closing ceremony of TU Berlin T3
    • Rami the kind of guy who
    • Rami's declassified flight survival guide
    • Rating questions out of 10 and personalized suggestions
    • Rooots onboarding
    • Saw a dude looking at corn at the library
    • Second day in Halifax
    • Shared lists of convo topics
    • Some people need some more self-awareneness
    • Someone I don't know was laughing at my LinkedIn post
    • Someone tried to steal my bike
    • Spontaneous trip to the Dolomites Italy
    • Still can't control myself when there's free food
    • Stopping scammers in Berlin from stealing tourist's money
    • Study plan reflection
    • Sync between Rooots and Todo n note-taking apps
    • Technology is isolating us
    • The Denmark playground trip with Elvis
    • The importance of connection with the youth
    • The sad truth about universities
    • Trip to Santa Monica n LA
    • TrreeHacks
    • Trying to rizz up Guy
    • Utah camping trip
    • We all were beginners at some point
    • We want our users off our app in one month
    • Week 1 automation reflection
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    • Week 2 automation reflection
    • Week 3 automation reflection
    • What no battery in a phone does to a man
    • What sets me apart from other people
    • Why I enjoy traveling with someone else rather than alone
    • Why I wanna build Orbit
    • Wispr Flow quick chat
    • Women are with the wrong men
    • Women problems
    • You can't find solutions to problems you haven't pinpointed
  • My Values
  • Structured Thoughts

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Jun 02, 20241 min read

Welcome to my universe (a.k.a personal journal)

You can explore the depths of my raw, unfiltered thoughts and experiences all in here

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