# Now

> What I am working on this month, what I am reading, what I am thinking about, and what I am praying for.

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# What I am working on right now

Last updated September 25, 2026

## Building

The marketing rebuild of devbatch.com has shipped, so it is no longer the largest thing on my desk. The healthcare-enterprise vertical is opening conversations with US hospital groups. I am also writing more on this site than I have written publicly in years; this whole property is part of what I am building this year.

## Reading

I am re-reading parts of _The Hard Thing About Hard Things_ alongside Roy Bahat’s recent writing on services-business compounding. I am also reading more Urdu non-fiction this year than I have in a decade. The right book in the right language hits a different muscle. On the religious side, I am working through tafsir of Surah Kahf again; I read the first ten and last ten ayats every Friday morning, and the cycle through the rest is slow on purpose.

## Thinking about

Whether AI is going to compress the unit economics of engineering services delivery faster than the industry expects, and what the 2026 version of “ship a six-person team in eleven days” looks like when half the work that team would have done is now done by a model. I do not have a clean answer. I have a working hypothesis I will write up later this quarter.

I am also thinking about the Shafiq Foundation. The structure has been informal for years. I am working toward making it formal enough that the work continues after I am gone, which is the entire point of sadqa-e-jaria. The piece I have not solved is the mental-health pillar; Pakistani society needs an institutional response to peer-and-jadu-tona pseudo-medicine, and I do not yet know who the right partners are.

## Praying for

Stable health for my parents. A productive Ramadan in 2027 for my family. The Pakistani engineers I have employed for sixteen years, and the country that produced them. An umrah this year with my parents, in shaa Allah.

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