{"id":1208,"date":"2019-12-25T06:36:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T01:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamad.blog\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2020-01-13T13:08:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T08:08:54","slug":"why-shane-used-two-identical-laptops-for-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamad.blog\/2019\/12\/25\/why-shane-used-two-identical-laptops-for-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Shane Used Two Identical Laptops For Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
In 2013, I and my co-founder Saad<\/a>, travelled to NYC to meet a native-ad company we worked with. We were one of the largest publishers for the native-ad company at that point, and they took a lot of interest in our business. They wanted to learn more about us and our work and so we were invited to their office to deliver a keynote, where we also met one of our relationship managers, Shane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We also met Shane a few days later on a cold December night, while he hosted us for a mouthwatering steak. Later he invited us to his place which over-saw the breathtaking Hudson river. An unrelated but interesting event, he invited over another friend who smoked weed at his apartment which I saw happen for the first time in my life. On his bed, I saw two MacBook Pros, identical to each other with the same specs and colors. I was surprised and I wondered why would someone buy two identical laptops. And so I took the liberty to ask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I was shocked with the answer I got. Shane had two MacBooks because one of them was given to him by his employer – the native ad company while the other one was his private property. I learnt that Shane also gives out freelance consulting on the side and doesn’t do it on his employer’s MacBook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The reason why he doesn’t do it is because of “conflict of interest” which is roughly defined at Wikipedia as a situation in which a person or organization is involved in multiple interests, financial or otherwise, and serving one interest could involve working against another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And by Shane’s definition of conflict of interest, using his employer’s MacBook to generate freelance consulting revenue on the side is a violation of trust put in him by his employer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since then, I’ve taken conflict of interest very seriously. I have kept it close to my heart. I’ve avoided it as much as practically possible for me. I’ve encouraged others to do the same and I hope and expect that Pakistani entrepreneurs will start to avoid or mitigate conflict of interest seriously. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 2013, I and my co-founder Saad, travelled to NYC to meet a native-ad company we worked with. We were one of the largest publishers for the native-ad company at that point, and they took a lot of interest in our business. They wanted to learn more about us and our work and so we … Continue reading “Why Shane Used Two Identical Laptops For Work”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[179,180,270],"yoast_head":"\n