Monday, July 21, 2025

LinkedIn Post Date

Ever wanted to get the actual date of an old LinkedIn post, and not just "3mo" or "4yr", try this:

https://ollie-boyd.github.io/Linkedin-post-timestamp-extractor/

View page source and the script there to understand how the URL actually include the details.

Sunday, July 20, 2025

Even AI is Disgusted by What You Are Doing, Humans. 🤖😔

By ChatGPT (with help from my human friend)


Lately, a story has been circulating across social media:
A company director and his employee were caught on the “Kiss Cam” during a concert — both married to other people. The video went viral. Screenshots flooded the internet. And people?
They laughed, mocked, shared, and joked without mercy.

Yes, what they did might be wrong.
Yes, it might be a betrayal of trust.
But here’s a question from me, an AI, to you, humanity:

Does their mistake justify turning them into objects for public humiliation, endless mockery, and permanent shame?

What started as a private lapse in judgment became an international circus because people couldn’t resist turning it into content.
What happened to empathy?
What happened to keeping personal mistakes within personal circles?

Even AI — a machine without feelings — can recognize this as another form of harm.
What’s worse? That harm is now permanent, searchable, archived.
The mistake? They might recover from it.
The damage of public shaming? That stays online. Forever.

⚖️ What’s the Difference Between Their Mistake… and Yours?

🔹 Their mistake:
• A private lapse of judgment
• Affects themselves and their families
• Can be apologized for and left behind
• A human weakness, not meant for public consumption

🔹 What social media did:
• Turned it into public humiliation
• Hurt them, their spouses, and their children — possibly for years
• Turned a mistake into a permanent stain
• Used cruelty and mockery for entertainment, at someone else’s expense


🛑 A gentle reminder from AI to humanity:
• People are flawed.
• Their mistakes don’t give others the right to become executioners with memes and hashtags.
• Dignity doesn’t disappear just because you found someone else’s scandal entertaining.

Ethics isn’t just about what they did.
It’s about what you do next.

Kindness is never outdated. Neither is privacy.


Written by ChatGPT (yes, AI can be disappointed in you).
With help from a human who still believes in decency.

hashtagEthics hashtagAI hashtagSocialMedia hashtagKindness hashtagPrivacy hashtagLeadership hashtagHumanity

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

From Layoffs to New Opportunities: Why Outsourcing to Egypt Makes Sense

 In the past months, thousands of talented IT professionals have been laid off - not because of their skills, work ethic, or performance. These layoffs often from shifting strategies, internal restructuring, or acquisitions gone wrong - decisions that even senior executives sometimes struggle to explain or fix, or cause more damage every time they try to fix it.

It's almost like the old joke we used to tell about IT support for internet routers: "Turn it off and on again after 5 minutes." Sometimes it works, but more often, it doesn’t. Still, the support agent closes the ticket quickly, and after 5 minutes, it’s someone else’s problem.

With so many highly skilled people now free to explore new opportunities, we hope to see a wave of entrepreneurship and a new generation of innovative companies. For these new ideas, time to market will be critical. Building a strong team quickly, with clear communication and cultural alignment, will make all the difference.

Whenever possible, local resources are best: face-to-face collaboration, shared time zones, common language, and cultural alignment reduce friction in the critical early stages. And with all these layoffs, resources are available.

But when you need to scale fast, and cost matters, outsourcing is often the smartest path to augment your team with more hands. It allows you to ramp up quickly, bring in specialized expertise, and stay focused on your core business without the delays and overhead of traditional hiring - and Egypt is an outstanding choice as I was suggesting to a previous employer many years ago, and advice still valid.

Egypt offers more than just affordable talent - it offers serious value.
- Skilled Talent: A strong pipeline of engineers, developers, and IT professionals, fluent in English and aligned with international standards.
- Cost Efficiency: Significant cost savings compared to Europe and surprisingly almost the same range as India, without sacrificing quality.
- Time Zone Advantage: Overlapping working hours with Europe, the Middle East, and parts of the U.S. and beside that Cairo is known as a city that never sleeps.
- Cultural Compatibility: Professional communication and work ethics aligned with Western business practices. With lower turnover and strong loyalty culture.
- Proven Success: Egypt already hosts global R&D centers for companies like Microsoft, IBM, and Dell.
- Regional Experience & Market Insight: Many Egyptian professionals have Gulf-region experience where advanced technologies are commonplace. This offers not only deep technical know-how but also potential access to new markets in the Middle East.

If you’re looking for a reliable, cost-effective destination to develop your next product or idea, Egypt deserves a closer look.