I am open for a chat about product ideas and co-founding opportunities. Reach out at sarhan.alaa@protonmail.com or on Telegram™ @SarhanAlaa

• (extreme) programming and (minimal) software design
• cheap & quick prototyping for user testing and solution validation
• pairing, esp. on programming tasks, but pretty much any other task too
• understanding and communicating the user problem, down to tech level
• hiring, on-boarding, mentoring and the difficult talks around those too
• making really bad jokes that make you ponder my existence in your universe

• product thinking, and how to get engineering up to speed with it
• German (with my daughter basically)
• flying (slowly)
• Game development (very slowly)

• my family
• ownership, trust and sportsmanship
• reflection, feedback and learning from results/outcomes
• the scientific method
• "be charitable" and "assume best intent" as human-to-human interfacing principles

• extremism anywhere (but especially on the internet these days)
• Ad-based business models and the products/services relying on it entirely
• our software engineering industry, esp. the high-end tech requirements we have been propagating as "best-practice". Also, the effing "agile coaching" phenomenon

• growing through the experience of raising my daughter (uh, dramatic)
• the trending privacy-first products, services, talks etc
• the hopefully-rising trend for "fullstack" and "product-minded" engineers
• I don't want to say "going to Mars".. but yeah, going to Mars