Khaled Alissa

September 25, 2024

On Remote Work

I still don't understand how most organizations, public and private, forfeited the opportunity to go Remote First. The Covid lockdown period was an experiment in which the whole world participated and saw it was possible to run entirely remotely. My best guess is that Remote work is inconvenient to organization leaders, as it requires ...
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July 29, 2024

Sports Boulevard

Among all Riyadh city projects, I’m excited about Sports Boulevard the most. I believe it will contribute to lifestyle, quality of life, and will hopefully help bring us some medals in future Olympics.🥇 But until then, all we’ll get is traffic and congestion 🚧. So, no contribution to the Olympics, and a negative contribution to quality...
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June 26, 2024

On Ad supported content

In the past few years, I have come to dislike ad-supported content. Not because of the popups and the ads, but because of the effect ad revenue has on the content being monetized. I believe it is responsible for much of the inappropriate, shallow, and misleading content out there. Combine that with any form of revenue-share, and you ge...
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December 31, 2023

OTPs

• Used in phone number logins • Used in 2FA flows • Used to confirm sensitive transactions (e.g. bank transactions), in which case the OTP MUST NOT be shared. • Used to confirm actions taken on your behalf (e.g. confirming a package delivery), in which case the OTP MUST be shared. • Sent from 2nd or 3rd party orgs, with context describ...
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