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85 episodes

Aug 27, 2026

Pakistan's urban middle class is subsidised by the farmer

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Aug 26, 2026

Pakistan is exporting water, not rice

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Aug 17, 2026

Pakistan needs 5.5 gigawatts of AI compute in 10 years

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Aug 16, 2026

Pakistan can build sovereign AI without a Saudi chequebook

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Aug 13, 2026

The Netflix subscription that would crash Pakistan

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Aug 12, 2026

Pakistan's data centers are not drinking your water

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Aug 4, 2026

Two weeks, one AI operating system, and a door-to-door test

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Jul 2, 2026

Five days, $500, and a one-person media engine

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44:30

Jun 20, 2026

The space economy's real wealth is in the startups under SpaceX

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1:00:00

Jun 16, 2026

SpaceX's IPO is a pump. The space industry is real.

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Jun 12, 2026

Why filing taxes actually helps your wealth grow

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45:18

Jun 6, 2026

The illusion of Islamic finance, and a $2M CEO

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Jun 6, 2026

Pakistan's tax system squeezes the middle class while the rich optimize

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34:22

Jun 3, 2026

The YouTubeification of software

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34:41

May 25, 2026

AI is a highway, not a slot machine — stop trading the noise

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May 23, 2026

Why China gives AI away for free

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May 22, 2026

The geopolitical crisis hiding behind the AI hype

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30:30

May 11, 2026

The Rs. 415 petrol price is not an international problem

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21:29

May 9, 2026

The 200-unit subsidy is ending. Blame the IPPs, not the poor.

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27:18

May 8, 2026

Pakistan's real estate pump is coming, and it's engineered

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41:23

May 7, 2026

A country is energy, labor, intelligence, and raw material

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May 1, 2026

China's dominance reshapes global energy markets

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23:47

Apr 30, 2026

The US-Iran war is an energy war, not an ideological one

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Apr 29, 2026

Science gave me a framework for faith

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41:09

Apr 27, 2026

This is a hundred-year cycle, not a recession

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Apr 24, 2026

Pakistan's stablecoin gambit shifts the dollar's reach

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22:14

Apr 16, 2026

Why I'm done pretending to be apolitical about Pakistan

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Jan 26, 2026

Building a consulting business with AI as your chief advisor

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Jan 16, 2026

The three dimensions every founder must test before building

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Jan 12, 2026

Starting from zero with eyes open to a changing world

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Jan 4, 2026

Eight practices for building in 2026

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Dec 31, 2025

The four skills Pakistan's youth must build

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Dec 25, 2025

Why Pakistanis struggle to compete for global jobs

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Dec 19, 2025

Pakistan's natural share is 35 billion dollars a year

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Dec 18, 2025

What I've learned rebuilding from 500 episodes

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May 5, 2025

Pakistani founders build billion-dollar companies in silence

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Apr 28, 2025

When Imran Khan's podcast became a pivot point

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Apr 21, 2025

The pattern of stepping back

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31:44

Ep 39 · Jan 14, 2025

Put your own oxygen mask on first in 2025

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Dec 26, 2024

Why China needed the corridor more than Pakistan

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Dec 25, 2024

Trump's tariffs could reshape Pakistan's export economy

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0:39:43

Ep 38 · Dec 17, 2024

Pakistan's old system is collapsing, and that is the opening

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34:26

Dec 9, 2024

Syria shows what happens when a state refuses to change

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49:00

Ep 37 · Dec 8, 2024

Pakistan cheers get-rich-quick schemes and doubts real builders

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Dec 5, 2024

Inflation fell, but the foundations remain fragile

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Dec 4, 2024

Context decides your next five years

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30:26

Ep 36 · Nov 20, 2024

Low sentiment is the time to buy Pakistani property, if you value it first

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21:49

Ep 35 · Nov 18, 2024

Pakistan's property crash makes room for real estate that earns rent

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26:18

Ep 34 · Nov 12, 2024

Pakistan's next rising class will earn in dollars

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42:18

Ep 33 · Nov 11, 2024

Trump's turn to industrial capitalism matters more to Pakistan than any phone call

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16:36

Nov 8, 2024

Slow and steady growth beats the quick win in a career

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0:23:49

Nov 6, 2024

Your dream job starts with work you would do unpaid

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23:31

Nov 5, 2024

Soft skills are the real ceiling on Pakistani IT careers

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20:48

Nov 4, 2024

Pakistan leaves 1.2 million young people without work every year

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13:58

Ep 28 · Oct 8, 2024

Dubai's visa freeze on Pakistanis is about overstays, and he expects it to lift after October

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39:46

Ep 27 · Oct 7, 2024

Pakistan should treat its emigrants as human capital exports

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40:52

Jul 30, 2024

Pakistan's last two years are a story about a changing world order

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38:00

Ep 26 · Jul 5, 2024

Pakistan's 2024 budget feeds the debt and squeezes those who already pay

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31:39

Ep 25 · Jul 1, 2024

Pakistan rarely puts an economist in charge of its budget

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0:30:47

Ep 24 · Jun 25, 2024

Pakistan's IT exports are capped by a shortage of engineers

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47:28

Ep 23 · Jun 11, 2024

Pakistan's viewers will grow out of vlogs and into infotainment

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1:01:13

Jun 7, 2024

Startups are a symptom, not Pakistan's solution

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1:04:47

Ep 21 · Jun 4, 2024

Why Muzamil thinks Pakistan is heading for an Indonesia 1998 moment

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38:28

Ep 20 · May 30, 2024

Pakistan should govern in Urdu and still learn English

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32:48

Ep 19 · May 28, 2024

Electric cars could break Pakistan's electricity death spiral

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38:31

Ep 18 · May 22, 2024

Pakistan calls itself Islamic but runs as a secular state

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34:23

Ep 17 · May 20, 2024

Pakistan's biggest problem is an ideology it never defined

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29:30

Ep 16 · May 6, 2024

Why Balochistan becomes unavoidable within five years

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0:27:11

Ep 15 · May 3, 2024

A skill alone will not future-proof you against AI

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27:47

Ep 14 · Apr 29, 2024

Why Muzamil chose the center: the world runs in grey

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1:01:35

Ep 13 · Apr 24, 2024

How getting cancelled pushed Muzamil back to the center

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37:59

Ep 12 · Apr 23, 2024

How a sheltered Islamabad boy became a liberal by 20

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23:35

Ep 11 · Apr 17, 2024

Russia's World Youth Festival was soft power aimed at the global south

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36:32

Feb 23, 2024

Cash burns. Buildings and stocks don't.

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39:24

Ep 9 · Feb 19, 2024

Expensive electricity is holding back Pakistan's whole economy

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32:56

Ep 8 · Feb 16, 2024

Pakistan's rupee is only as strong as what Pakistan produces

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32:55

Ep 7 · Feb 14, 2024

Pakistan needs policies that pinch now and pay off later

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0:51:46

Ep 6 · Feb 12, 2024

The 2024 election showed narrative now beats electables

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49:08

Ep 5 · Feb 7, 2024

A government without a mandate cannot fix Pakistan's economy

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54:00

Ep 4 · Feb 6, 2024

Muzamil reads Pakistan's 2024 election as 70% a global story

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46:30

Ep 3 · Feb 5, 2024

PMLN's 2024 manifesto is the most detailed of the three, and its power plan is the weakest part

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38:39

Ep 2 · Feb 2, 2024

Why Muzamil ranks PPP's 2024 manifesto last of three

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44:47

Feb 1, 2024

PTI's manifesto reads like a new constitution in waiting

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1:14:46

Jan 30, 2024

What 400 episodes taught me about Pakistan's podcast peak

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Feb 18, 2022

Two hundred one episodes of learning in the silence

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