Irtiza Hafiz

Productivity

15 Ways AI-powered Tools Are Helping Me Work Smarter, Not Harder

Get ahead of the game and save 10+ hours every week by adopting these AI tactics and strategies. Let’s face it: technology can be intimidating. For the longest time, I was hesitant to embrace AI-powered tools in my daily life. I used to worry that AI would make my

Tech

Fake It ’Til You Make It: The Dangers of Deepfake Technology

Living in a world where it’s impossible to discern fact from fiction. In an age where technology is advancing faster than we can keep up, deep fake technology has emerged as a powerful weapon for spreading misinformation. With the ability to create videos, voices, and images that are nearly

Programming

Bring Tony Stark’s JARVIS to Life: Build a Personal AI Assistant with Python, React, and GPT-3

From Idea to Reality: How I Built My Own Personal AI Assistant Web App Do you ever wish you could have a personal AI assistant like Tony Stark’s J.A.R.V.I.S. or Iron Man’ F.R.I.D.A.Y to help you with your tasks,

Productivity

The Batching Buzz: How This Productivity Hack Can Transform Your Day

Discover the secret to tackling your to-do list like a pro. Do you find yourself constantly switching between tasks, struggling to stay focused and productive? If so, you might want to give “batching small stuff” a try. I have adopted this productivity strategy after reading the book Make Time by

Productivity

Make Every Day a Highlight Reel: Tips for Productivity and Goal-Setting

Highlighting your way to success. Hey there productivity enthusiasts! 👋 🐼 Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the sheer number of tasks on your to-do list? Do you struggle to stay focused and motivated throughout the day? Do you end every day, just to realize that it was all a blur and

Productivity

Finding Balance: How I Manage My Job, Side Hustles, and Personal Life

The week of a full-time engineering manager, part-time blogger, and YouTuber, and an uncle to the cutest niece and nephew! Do you struggle to balance your full-time job, side hustles, hobbies, family, and more? Do you feel pulled in multiple directions by shifting life priorities? Maybe, you feel that at

Programming

Creating Your Own AI-Powered Second Brain: A Guide with Python and ChatGPT

Unleashing the power of AI with 10 lines of Python Code that will help you create your very own memory palace. Are you tired of forgetting important details or struggling to recall critical information when you need it the most? If so, you are not alone. Memory retention is a

Lifestyle

From Latte to Laptop: Discovering the Perks of Remote Work in a Cafe

Lessons learned exploring and working from local cafes for the last 3 years. The thrill of finding hidden gems in my neighborhood, the smell of freshly brewed coffee, tasting exotic latte options, finding new songs to add to my playlist, and the random chitter-chatter with strangers — these are some of

Newsletter

Boba Train #3: Life with AI, Future with AI, De-influencing Trends, Reading & Podcast Recs March 2023

Hi 👋 folks! Welcome to the 3rd edition of my monthly newsletter — Boba Train 🧋🚂. The drink of choice today is a refreshing Ginger and Peach tea. I promise it’s better than it sounds! 📕 What’s in this issue? - Integrating AI Into My Life - Misinformation At Scale with AI

Health

A Quick Guide to Superfoods (with quick and easy recipes!)

Supercharge your diet with these superfood ingredients and some simple recipes to improve your physical and mental health. If you are here to learn about small healthy ingredients you can gradually integrate into your diet, you are in the right place. If you are here to find some magic pill

Productivity

Living Like A Wolf for Maximum Productivity

A productivity schedule designed around waking up later than usual in the morning. Do you struggle to wake up early? Are you tired of watching all the “Morning Routine” productivity videos on YouTube where people start their days at 5 AM? It doesn’t have to be that way. It

Tech

Modern-Day Predators - From Saber-toothed Tigers and Dire Wolves to TikTok and Instagram Reels

Time saved from hunting, gathering, foraging, and running away from predators is spent swiping through TikTok and Instagram Reels. Meet Alice 👩 Alice’s a strong and tough individual who lived among hunter-gatherer communities millions of years ago, on the same Earth that we walk on today. Meet Bob 🧔 Bob’s

Health

I Started Every Morning With Lemon Water For 30 Days.

When life throws lemons at you, make some delicious health-boosting lemon water. A couple of months ago, the YouTube algorithm Gods threw a curveball at me. Out of thin air, it recommended me a very graphic video about kidney stones and their removal process. The video tried its very best

Health

The Powerful Dessert That Tremendously Improved My Health

Since making some changes to my intermittent fasting schedule, I started gaining weight very quickly. I moved up my lunchtime to 11 AM in the morning. That meant, by the time I was done with my work day (around 7 PM), I started feeling hungry again. To make matters worse,

Finance

5 Cheap Purchases To Help Save The Planet

Reducing our carbon footprint to save the planet does not have to be expensive. We don’t need to buy expensive sustainable clothing to feel good about our relationship with our environment. There are numerous cheap purchases that we can integrate into our day-to-day lives to help save our planet,

Lifestyle

How To Design Your Environment for an Intentional Life

Rely less on willpower and more on environment design to develop good habits leading to a happy, healthy, and productive life. Relying on your willpower to live an intentional and disciplined life is usually a recipe for disaster. Instead, you want to design your environment in such a way that

Productivity

5 Healthy Alternatives to Mainstream Social Media Apps

Switch gears and start living a more intentional life. One of the most sinister ways we spend our free time today is by mindlessly scrolling through social media apps like Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, etc. According to Statista, the average person in 2022 spent 147 minutes daily on social media

Productivity

Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) System with Raindrop and Bear

I have struggled for a long time to come up with a personal knowledge management (PKM) system that works for me. There has been a sudden explosion of PKM apps in the past couple of years. From Obsidian to Roam Research to Notion, everyone has their favorites. There’s almost

Lifestyle

I Swapped 3 Hours of Screen Time with Reading Time

3 years, 86% less screen time, 1100% increase in reading time — How did I do it? How did it impact my life? In 2019, I had 3.5 hours of screen time and less than 10 minutes of reading time. Fast forward to 2023, and I have 30 minutes of

Tech

I Tracked My Sleep for 30 Nights…At What Cost Though?

I tracked my sleep using my Apple Watch SE for 30 consecutive days. The results surprised me. Being a tech aficionado, I always try to maximize the use of every gadget that I own. The Apple Watch is no different. One of the most marketed uses of smartwatches is their

Productivity

My Simple and Productive Desk Setup

I have been obsessed with desk setups for quite some time now. Having lived in more than six different places in the past eight years, I was forced to construct and destroy multiple desk setups. Most of these setups had one flaw or another. I have tried it all — use

Health

5 Cheap Purchases to Make You Healthy

Most of our purchases are triggered by impulse, advertisements, society, and sometimes jealousy. Not many of them are out of necessity. You would be surprised to see how little a person actually needs to live a healthy life. Yet, in our advertisement-driven world, we are always convinced that we need

Productivity

7 Ways YouTube Premium Boosted My Productivity

What started as an experimental entertainment subscription ended up being an insane productivity booster. When I subscribed to YouTube Premium, I was worried that it would become a productivity killer. Instead, it has become a great productivity booster. If you have been reading what I write, you must know that

Newsletter

Boba Train #1: Productivity Tips, Book Recs, Focused Work, Big Tech & Murder Mysteries

Hi 👋 folks! Welcome to the first edition of my monthly newsletter: Boba Train. At the end of every month, I will share things that I found interesting throughout the month. If you are interested in productivity tips, health hacks, money tips, technology, and book recommendations, I hope you will find

Lifestyle

Our Obsession with Perfection is Killing The Planet

To start healing the planet, we don’t need a handful of people doing sustainability perfectly. Instead, we need a million people doing it imperfectly. Being at the extremes of the spectrum is never easy, and more importantly never sustainable. If you want to lead a lifestyle that’s easy