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DopaMedia: sells dopamine only at the cost of attention, time & 99 others

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It requires guidance and Tawfiq from Allah in the form of a strong will to get rid of any addiction. If the will is strong enough, perhaps one can simply delete social media apps in an instant. For others, it is a step-by-step process: Keep using social media as usual but switch your phone screen to grayscale; continue for 40 consecutive days. Lost continuity? Reset and start counting from one. Keeping grayscale mode on, remove the apps and access social media only via browser for 40 consecutive days. Find an alternative to social media. Avoid videos or music; reading PDF books is a great option. No need to replace it immediately-just identify what alternative works for you. Analyze your average daily browser time and set a Digital Wellbeing timer 5 minutes below it. Lower it by 5 minutes every week (e.g., every Friday) until you reach 25 minutes per day. Once you can consistently maintain 25 minutes per day via browser in grayscale mode, congratulations on the improvement! Maintain th...
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Office Hours: 9to5 or 6to2, which do you prefer?

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Generally, office hours are from 9am to 5pm. And in the busy hours of returning from office, traffic remains high resulting in reaching home after 6pm or more. Hence, not much time remains to spend with the family. And becomes a life of a full-time worker and visiting home occasionally. On another spectrum, many people don't even get to stay with their families due to the nature of branch transfer, chasing higher studies for knowledge (or permanent residentship for some), travelling across the country for building own initiatives and other reasons. Isn't it a blessing to have the opportunity of living with the family? Why do we all work ultimately? For serving Allah through providing useful services to the people, earning halal money and then spending it on sadaqa and the family, isn't it? All these to have a life of peace with the family and a peaceful life at akhira. Perhaps, you think I am too innocent for the world as the above mentioned is not the ultimate goal of many...
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Courtyards at Homes

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A fter watching this interesting podcast by The Thinking Muslim, it hit me that there is a quiet calculus in how we construct our lives, one that measures not just the material cost of brick and mortar, but the subtle price we pay for the serenity of the soul. ​In Bangladesh, the true spirit of a home has rarely ever belonged to the city. No matter how many decades are spent navigating the dense, concrete corridors of urban existence, city life remains an extended interlude- a temporary refuge that sometimes stretches across an entire generation, yet never quite becomes the destination. The true anchor remains desher bari- the village home. ​It is a place deeply bound by memory, lineage, and return. In its quiet earth lies the family cemetery, an enduring sanctuary where generations rest, and where we, InshaAllah, will one day return. The traditional landscape speaks to a rhythm that honors life: the open courtyard (uthan) sprawling at the front of the house to gather the sky, and the...
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The story of Founding "Thriving Techies"

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Assalamualaikum! Starting in the name of Allah. This article is about the idea of founding Thriving Techies. So, the first question which arrives in our mind is, what is Thriving Techies? What is the thing? Is it a food to eat? Or a clothing brand? Nope, none of them. Actually, Thriving Techies is a team. A team of five technology lovers from four different districts of Bangladesh. But all the team members are teenagers. The name Thriving Techies means, a group of technology lovers who are developing their skills day by day. Thriving means developing day by day, and Techies means a group of technology lovers. Thriving Techies was founded on 23rd April, 2018. 1year or 6months before founding the team, Rijwanul Hoque, that means I saw my friend or teammate Parves Hossain Rabby in a Facebook group (maybe the name of the group was TrickBD) commented on a tech related post. I saw the man in the profile picture seems to be a teenager. Maybe the boy is my classmate. I was a curious boy! At t...
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Team Thriving Techies is back again! Story of new reformation!

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As I told that I bought the domain of thrivingtechies.com  and I was also planning to make the homepage for it  on November 27th! That was a long ago. ;p So, that was a bit old story. After buying the domain name, we hosted our site  on Firebase. What is Firebase? This is a platform by Google to host web apps. There are many kinds of features. We just needed to Host our website. After hosting our website, we've designed our Logo. Here is the logo: And there goes other previews of the logo: Logo was designed  by me. But the team helped me to customize the logo more efficiently.  After launching the Logo, my friend, very good web designer Mr. Parves Hossain Rabby  got the work to design the website of Thriving Techies. Now, the output is Live!  The whole design is designed by Parves. But the Design is incomplete.  During the website design, our team member, Hasibul Alam  designed a list of HTML Color Codes .  Afte...
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Dream of a city with No Money

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So, this is just a dream of mine. Parves was waiting for this blog. It may disappoint him. The reason could be, this is a useless, common, or predictable dream. So what happens if there is no money? And people are helping each other instead of doing "give money & have something" business? My dream is of a city not a world without money. Which means, money is related to the world but not related to that specific city. There will be a workstation in the center of that city. The people who lives in the city will work for that workstation where various kinds of clothes, foods, etc will be made & will be supplied to other cities of the world . Now, the citizens of that specified city will be provided, foods, health facilities, education & other necessary rights instead of being provided a fixed amount of salary. That means, they will get anything they want but they should work in the workstation. Now, what is the necessary of working in that workstation? The works...
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It's time to describe about my plans.

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I am going to describe the  plans which was going in my mind. 1.  An app or site to provide to-let services: What if there is an app for posting that my house is available for rent? Maybe like airbnb? People will post about the specifications of their house. They will make a profile by giving the informations of how many bedrooms, drawing rooms are available in their house. Then they will turn on a button which will post them in the "available for rent" section. The house owners will also have the option to select the monthly rent price. The owners can also have an option to turn on "bid system" The peoples who are willing to get the house on rent will be able to bid on how much they can pay monthly for that house. The most the user bids, the most his probability to get that house on rent. (sorry for grammatical mistakes) 2. An app or site for stopping movie piracy: There will be a media player app which will validate that if the content that is being played i...
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