The Clock With No Hands
The hidden cost of not seeing time
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Part marketer, part builder, full-time maker of things on the internet.
I follow my curiosity until it turns into a blog post or a product. If you like sharp ideas, real talk about marketing tech, and the occasional existential reflection... you'll feel right at home.
This is my corner of the web where I share what I'm building and what I've learned.
Hey, I'm AQ.
Builder. Writer. Thinker.
Hey, thanks for taking the time to read this.
If we haven't met, I'm AQ. I started trading HTML tags in Karachi in 2003 while classmates were trading cricket cards. That first dollar from Google Adsense wasn't just currency. It was permission to believe this weird hobby could become something more.
Long before AI became cocktail party conversation, I was poking at neural networks and blowing up servers in my homelab. Not because it was trendy, but because it asked good questions.
At the core of everything I do is this belief:
Marketing something you built to solve a real problem is a service to the world.
I write, build, and share consistently, because I believe learning in public is one of the most generous things you can do. And that's what this site is for.
Abdul Qadir Projects
Things I'm building, writing, learning, and reading.
Building
aq.wtf
This site. Astro + Cloudflare. Zero unnecessary JS.
Writing
Privacy-first marketing
What happens when you can't track everything?
Learning
AI agent skills
Marketing automation with Claude Code.
Reading
Superlinear Returns
Paul Graham on compounding effort.
Posts
I write to think. Sometimes those thoughts turn out useful.
We Built the Tiger Cub. Now What?
Why Geoffrey Hinton thinks we’re raising a digital tiger cub—and what leaders must do before it grows up.
Read more →The Fisherman's Choice
What's worse: the danger or the fear of danger? Give me reality, the danger itself.
Read more →The Bounce Back Blueprint
Failure isn't the opposite of success. It's the raw material
Read more →Stuff I like
No affiliate links, no brand deals. Just things I genuinely found valuable.
- Rand Fishkin"We're not losing data. We're losing the illusion that we ever had it." Rand connects privacy regulations to the collapse of multi-touch attribution. The money quote is the one everyone in marketing needs to hear.
- Paul GrahamSome efforts compound. Most don't. The trick is knowing which. PG's essay on why channeling your builder skills into the right project has a payoff structure a normal career can't match.
Get in touch
Building something interesting? Want to collaborate? Just want to say hi? I'd love to hear from you.