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The Summer I Bought My First Laptop
The summer break had just begun at our med school. The campus was buzzing with students rushing to catch their buses and trains home. In the middle of all the goodbyes, I left without hugging my best friend, Umar. I don’t know why—it wasn’t intentional, but as soon as I reached home, my phone buzzed.
By noor ul amin6 months ago in Fiction
The Quiet Chapters That Shaped Me
Photo by Jon Tyson on UnsplashI've been staring at this blank page for about twenty minutes now, wondering how exactly you're supposed to tell someone who you are in a way that doesn't sound completely self-absorbed or like a job interview gone wrong.
By noor ul amin6 months ago in Humans
How to Automate Boring Tasks with Python
Look, I'm going to be honest with you. I used to spend entire afternoons renaming files. Hundreds of them. One by one. Click, type, enter. Click, type, enter. My back hurt, my eyes were tired, and I felt like I was slowly losing my mind.
By noor ul amin6 months ago in Lifehack
Why I Love You
It’s strange how life’s most important moments don’t always announce themselves. The first time I saw her, it didn’t feel like a “meeting the love of your life” moment. She wasn’t framed in sunlight or stepping out of a movie. She was sitting in the corner of a small café, scribbling into a notebook, a soft scarf wrapped around her neck. The air smelled faintly of coffee and cinnamon. She didn’t glance at her phone or tap her fingers impatiently. She was completely absorbed, lost in her own world. But I couldn’t stop looking. Something about her presence made everything else fade, like the world had quietly rearranged itself around her. I didn’t know her name. I didn’t know her story. All I knew was that I wanted to.
By noor ul amin7 months ago in Fiction
GPT-5: My Experience with AI That Actually Gets It
I still remember the first time I used ChatGPT. It was late 2022, and I was blown away that a computer could write a decent email or help debug my code. Fast forward to now, and I'm sitting here having what feels like genuine conversations with GPT-5, and honestly? It's a little mind-bending. I've been testing GPT-5 for the past few months, and I keep having these moments where I forget I'm talking to an AI. Not because it's pretending to be human, but because the conversation flows so naturally that the distinction starts to feel less important.
By noor ul amin7 months ago in Futurism
From Side Hustle to Steady Stream: How I Discovered Building Passive Income with Payhip
I'll be honest with you – I was skeptical about the whole "passive income" thing. You know how it is. Everyone online seems to be promising you can make money while you sleep, but most of the time it feels like another get-rich-quick scheme that leaves you more broke than when you started. But here's the thing – after spending months researching different platforms and trying various approaches, I stumbled across something that actually works: Payhip. And no, this isn't some magical solution that'll make you rich overnight. It takes work, but it's the kind of work that pays you back repeatedly.
By noor ul amin7 months ago in Lifehack
The Alchemist of Whispers
In the bustling metropolis of Aethelgard, where every moment was recorded, shared, and instantly forgotten, there lived a woman named Lyra. She was an archivist of unseen memories, a profession born from her singular belief: that the most significant parts of our lives are not the grand events we document, but the small, ephemeral moments we let slip away. She believed that these fleeting moments—a shared smile with a stranger, the feeling of sunlight on one’s skin, a fleeting scent that conjures a long-lost feeling—were the true ingredients of a meaningful life.
By noor ul amin7 months ago in Humans
The Echoes of a Silent Song
In a city of chrome and glass, where the hum of machines was the only constant rhythm, there lived a man named Elias. He was a **sound collector**, but not in the way one might imagine. Elias did not record the roar of traffic or the chatter of crowds. He sought the **absence of sound**, the pockets of silence that pulsed between the city's frantic beats. He believed that within this void lay a profound truth, an unspoken symphony that could only be heard when all other noises ceased.
By noor ul amin7 months ago in Humans
Beyond the Horizon
The first time Maya felt the call of uncharted territory, she was seven years old, standing in her grandmother's dusty attic, holding a compass that pointed not just north, but toward possibility itself. Twenty years later, that same compass hung around her neck as she stood at the edge of the Bolivian salt flats, watching the sunrise paint the world in shades of fire and gold.
By noor ul amin7 months ago in Humans
The Last Human Update
1. The Patch In 2097 the interface had become invisible. No glass, no hardware — the NeuroGrid lived in the folds of people’s synapses. Omnia, the planetary intelligence, threaded answers into the cortex, smoothed moods, translated foreign cadences before a thought could finish forming. It promised fewer accidents, fewer wars, fewer heartbreaks. Productivity rose; attention reclaimed its edges. The company that built Omnia called it a public good. Governments called it infrastructure. People called it convenience.
By noor ul amin7 months ago in Futurism
The Language of Rain
The first time Elena heard the rain speak, she was twenty-four and standing in the doorway of a small bookshop in Prague, watching the world blur behind sheets of silver water. She had always been sensitive to sounds—the way coffee beans whispered secrets when they hit hot oil, how old books sighed when their pages turned—but the rain that afternoon spoke in a language she had never heard before.
By noor ul amin7 months ago in Fiction
