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	<description>I&#039;m a Muslim entrepreneur and software engineer writing about life, tech, and faith. On this blog I share what I&#039;m building, how I&#039;m thinking, and where Islam guides me in the digital age. From AI experiments to blockchain projects to reflections on purpose, it&#039;s all part of the same journey.</description>
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		<title>Beyond the Prediction Machine &#124; Guarding the Human Soul in an Age of AI</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 07:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sometimes a shift happens in the world that is so quiet, so gradual, and so deceptively convenient that we only recognise its weight once it begins shaping our thinking, our behaviour, and our children. Artificial Intelligence is one of those shifts. People frame it as progress. As empowerment. As a great equaliser. As the moment...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Coach Your AI: Context Engineering That Actually Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[AI isn’t a magician. It’s an eager intern that says yes to everything. To get real results, you need to coach it. Use context, examples, reverse prompting, and role assignment. Push it with harsh feedback. Iterate until it’s useful. Why AI Feels Polite but Useless AI is designed to be helpful. It rarely says no....]]></description>
		
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		<title>Teaching My Daughter with an LLM We’re Building Together (And the High-Level Problem We Solved)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Asif Amod]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2025 10:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve always believed the best way to learn something is to build it. So I decided to teach my eldest daughter, Khawlah, Python not with textbooks or tutorials, but by building something real together: a personalized large language model. It’s not a toy. We’re building a fully functional private LLM system with FastAPI, Supabase for...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Justice Even When It&#8217;s Hard: The Quiet Strength of Standing Firm</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Asif Amod]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2025 19:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“O you who have believed, be persistently standing firm for Allah, witnesses in justice, and do not let the hatred of a people prevent you from being just.” Qur’an 5:8 There’s a powerful moment in parenting that tests you. It’s not when your kids misbehave. It’s not when they throw a tantrum or ignore your...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cognitive Range, Conflict &#038; Chaos: Lessons From a Late-Night WhatsApp Chat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You never know when a conversation will hit deeper than expected. This one started casually a comment in a WhatsApp group, a few thoughts shared, and suddenly we were neck-deep in team dynamics, neurodiversity, and what it really means to build resilient, future-ready teams. I wasn’t planning on writing about it. But it stuck with...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Staying Comfortable Is Quietly Costing You Growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 19:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It was just after Fajr. The house was still kids asleep, the wind outside doing its usual Cape Doctor tantrum. I stepped outside with a cup of rooibos, barefoot, feeling that cold Gordon’s Bay dew soak straight through my socks. Classic mistake. But it woke me up properly. As I looked out across the garden...]]></description>
		
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		<title>My Intermittent Fasting Journey: What I’ve Learned, What I Use, and Why I’m Not Stopping</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 14:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Intermittent fasting started off as a curiosity. I wasn’t overweight by most people’s standards, but I didn’t feel like myself—sluggish, unfocused, and heavier than I wanted to be. I was 35, sitting at 92 kg, and I knew that if I didn’t reset, I’d slip into a health spiral that would only get harder to...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Raising Core Skills for 2030 (One Bedtime Story at a Time)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Asif Amod]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2025 18:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The other night, as I tucked Khawlah and Thauban into bed, Khawlah asked me a question that made me pause:“Papa, when we’re big, what kind of work will we do?” It’s a simple question, but beneath it lies the real challenge of parenting today:We’re raising children not just for 2030 — we’re raising them for...]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Struggle Is the Point: Why We Need to Think Before We Ask</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Asif Amod]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2025 19:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The goats were fighting again. I was trying to sort out a small programming bug while keeping one eye on the kids outside. Somewhere between chicken feed and line 84 of my code, one of the kids ran up and asked: “Papa, how do I spell ‘galaxy’?” I paused. I knew the answer, obviously. But...]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Fragrance of Hope: Lessons from a Broken Bottle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the most profound reminders don’t come from lectures or books. They come quietly — tucked inside the small, almost forgettable moments of someone else’s day. Recently, someone shared a story with me. A simple story, but one that left a deep imprint on my mind. It was a Friday morning. They were preparing for...]]></description>
		
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