A running, absolutely non-exhaustive list of what I know a lot about, am starting to know more about, and what I know nothing about. Here’s to making sure it’s always growing and in flux.
Things I know a lot about:
- Where to find the best Pakistani food in Houston
- Myers Briggs types
- My friends’ Myers Briggs types
- The various side eyes and their meanings of my two female redbone coonhounds
- Zero waste grocery shopping
- Early stage startups
- Norman doors
- Facilitating meetings
- How to plan an intercultural, interfaith wedding on a budget
- Productivity tips and tricks
- Anne of Green Gables
- Writing a good resume and cover letter
- South Asian fiction authors
- Building team culture and trust
- Harry Potter
- My husband’s dance moves and what they mean (mashed potato = he’s excited/scheming)
- Thrifting and the best spots to go in Houston
- Writing a really good email
- Helping you interpret texts from your new flame
- Losing a parent
- Workflow automations
- The different types of curly hair and how to take care of it (not that I actually practice this)
- The How I Built This podcast
- Drake songs (it is what it is)
- How to cook the perfect boiled egg
- Northern Louisiana vs. Southern Louisiana (hint: they are not the same)
- Lord of the Rings
- Making a PowerPoint presentation that is just fine
- The OJ Simpson trial
- The cult that is The Transformed Wife
- The Houston startup scene and its unfiltered pros and cons
- Daily journaling
- Peeling and eating crawfish
- Why Palms is the best neighborhood in Los Angeles
Things I’m starting to know a lot (or just more) about:
- Customer surveying and feedback
- Homemade bread
- Saying “no”
- The benefits of remote work
- Recognizing advice that is not so great
- Local Houston politics
- Data-driven decision making
- The fast fashion industry
- The importance of regular eyebrow threading
- Dolly Parton
- Developer tools
- Weddings
- Building habits
- Why dudes have been in charge of everything and why that’s not okay
- Personal finance
- Mexican-American culture
- Healthy(ish) cooking
- What being a modern Muslim-American can mean
- Differences between sparkling water brands
Things I know a bit about:
- Data privacy
- Basketball
- Baking
- Homemade cleaning supplies
- How the stock market works
- Blockchain
- Sewing
- Yoga
- Magical realism in fiction
- Climate change
- The India-Pakistan partition
- Where to find the best garlic paratha roll in Karachi
- Design thinking
- Marketing
- How to use public transportation in Houston
- Using a drill and screwdriver effectively
- Running
- Excel
- Gun control in America
- JavaScript and how the web works
- Godaddy.com
- Credit card points
- Tarot cards
- Boiling crawfish
- Properly assembling IKEA furniture
Things I know nothing about:
- Most sports
- Physics
- World War I
- Anything car-related (including my own)
- Playing music
- The United States political system (beyond I’m just a bill, sittin’ on capitol hill)
- Crossfit
- What REALLY happened to Selena Quintanilla
- America’s incarceration problem
- Presidents James Monroe through James Buchanan, and then Andrew Johnson to William McKinley. Who were they? What did they do?
- A lot of global politics
- How to make haleem
- Astrology
- Woodwork
- What Kim Kardashian is up to (thank god)
- Bitcoin
- How bridges and roads are built
- Human anatomy
- 80s rock
- Vegan cheese
- New England
- Black holes
- Russian literature
- The bottom of the ocean
- Differences between various definitions of organic
- WWE
- How to contour
- Languages besides English and Urdu
- How my taxes are actually calculated
- Machine learning
- Solar panels
- Sign language
- Polenta
- Pork bacon and most pork products
- The Crusades
- How Chris Brown still has a career
- Nascar
- Making the perfect French braid
- Toddlers
- Robotic process automation
- Taking a good selfie
- Brexit
- Other galaxies
