High-five Steemit - the new PEvO Project Leader is here!

in introduceyourself •  7 years ago  (edited)

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Hi everyone - This is my intro.

In the late 80s I decided that it was time for a long journey, so I packed my bags and moved out of my home. Well, my parents packed our bags, because I was still a baby and we had to escape from civil war in Afghanistan, but this decision plus all my life experiences shaped me and the way I think. We had to endure several setbacks on our way to more freedom, but my parents stayed focussed when leaving Afghanistan for Pakistan, then moving to Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and finally Germany. I was a kid when we arrived in Rendsburg, which is a small city in the north of Germany. 

So we arrived at our new home, I went to school and I quickly understood that becoming a professional NBA basketball player isn't as easy as it felt when dreaming of it. So becoming a doctor is the way to go - since my father used to be a doctor in war-torn Afghanistan and my mother was a scientist, researching cures for diseases like rabies.  

What did I do? 

Short before finishing school in Hamburg I realized that I'd rather solve mathematical problems and develope robots that perform heart surgeries than doing it myself. That was when I started my business engineering studies. 

During my studies I have started, successfully sold and even miserably failed (with) my own startups. Have I felt frustrated because of the failure? Nope, I was impressed about what I had learned from my own mistakes and since then I started sharing my experiences and knowledge with others, helping them build their own products, companies and bringing ideas into reality.

Who am I now?

What truly defines me today is that I love to learn, achieve great things and motivate others in doing the same. 

What does it feel like having life goals and passion combined in your daily work?

That's how it feels like when you're the project leader of PEvO

In October 2016 I met @pharesim and I was pretty impressed by the work he had done and was about to do. He asked me to read the PEvO White Paper and I promised him my support. After a few weeks of researching and understanding the real value of open science @pharesim and I had several discussions about the opportunities and possible obstacles on our way. I decided to take this role and do what needs to be done. 

When I think about the core of why I took this position, it is about impact and change. And even now while writing this introduction I feel honored and excited about being part of PEvO. 

Why PEvO?

The adventure and the opportunities we have with PEvO are challenging the competitive person in me. So my aim right now is to first remove every obstacle that's keeping us from innovating and then build and enable a team that focuses on changing the world of scientific publishing. 

We need a world in which every individual or organisation can get more out of their contribution to science. 

What's coming next?

If you want to help us disrupting the way scientific publishing works, let's get to know each other!

I'd love to keep in touch with you all on steemit and linkedin, so feel free to contact me.

Best,

Shakib

[email protected]

https://www.linkedin.com/in/swassey/

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Hello I'm new to Steemit what an Amazing View to your Intro

I am happened to had a very throughout conversation with kevin wong last night about PEvO. We both agreed that it is very disruptive but lucks of some ROI plan for now. That des not mean that there can't be solutions for that. I would love to see you guys making this project a thing. Followed.

welcome, good luck !!

Thanks for sharing your story!

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Welcome to Steemit! Would love to keep in touch. Following, keep us updated!

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I wanted to promote Pevo on my university. Also I have plans to try to talk Italian scholar into cooperation. Read more here if interested. Expect me to contact you as soon as I kill of few people in my contest and I will finally have time to read the white paper and start the promotion!

Sounds great, @fingersik. I would love to read about your thoughts on how we tackle the problems in scientific publishing - as soon as you've read the white paper. I'm sure we can work something out with your university. Thanks for your support! :)

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Most ventures end in failure, trust me even when you think you are successful, something can take it all away in the blink of an eye. Its great to see you have bounced back and are trying something else. I hope one day I can find the same inspiration to do so.

That's true. Don't worry, I took me some time to realize the true power behind pevo after @pharesim had first told me about it. So I'm sure you'll find something that inspires you, soon.
What energizes me right now is the feedback we receive from scientists. Even though they see us facing many challenges, they also see the impact open science and pevo can have on the distribution of knowledge.

Welcome to Steemit. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do! :-)

Welcome to Steem, @Shakib! Great to have you here finally and thanks for sharing your story.

Looking forward to discuss more on Steemit.chat whenever it works.

Hi @isteemit, I'm happy to be part of Steemit and share updates on our progress regularly. There's a lot happening right now :)

welcome to the family! i just followed you, follow me back and feel free to check out my account!

Welcome to the community, Shakib! Follow me at https://steemit.com/@bitgeek

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Welcome to Steemit! :)

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Welcome to steemit Shak! You may want to visit some of the science aficionados of Steemit on the steemSTEM channel (when the steemit chat will be working again). Some of us are scientists and will be more than happy to have a chat with you (as we did with @pharesim in the past).

This is a topic that is very important to me.

Awesome story!

hi @shak
welcome to steemit..
Hope you are lucky here :D
if you rich plz don't forget me :XD (LOL)

#greetings

The only thing missing from this picture is a paraglider. #paragliding

I am glad you are here, because I am interested in #PEvO and need some help understanding it.

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  ·  7 years ago (edited)

You're so right, @captainobviou3! We can discuss your questions on #pevo anytime.

Wow, you have an amazing story. My parents made one race move from one continent to the next. Didn't speak the language and struggled to survive. We are so lucky to have our parents give us a better life

Hello! Im also new so i will fillow you !

thank you for good posting.

Hey @shak! Welcome to Steemit, looking forward to your adventures. Hope you have a great time here!

Welcome to Steemit @shak
Nice to meet you.. and please do stay in touch.

Upvoted and followed!

Welcome to Steemit, and best of luck! It's good to have you! Upvoted and followed ^_^

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Welcome to Steemit! Great story and glad to have you onboard!

Welcome to steemit. I just read @pharesim s post about Pevo and thus came to read your intro which he mentioned. I can feel the dangers you endured while leaving Afghanistan. I sent you a linked in request and would to spread the word to my friends in India about Pevo. Cheers!!!!

@shak. Goodluck and happy steeming.

Very admiring adventure. I can understand the struggle in having to move from your home as parents and find a place that is peaceful and able to live somewhat a normal life. You're blessed, never forget what your parents did for you.

Great post and great photo,i cant handle highs,best of luck on your steem journey :)

Welcome to Steemit where your efforts will be rewarded well..stay in touch

I will definitely follow you. Interesting life story.

Welcome~~ good luck~!!

Congratulations @shak!
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I am Dracula and I bid you welcome ;)

im glad you could make it here, if you want check out my [new post]https://steemit.com/science/@bardhylsllamniku/scientists-amazing-discover-knowledge-could-be-uploaded-your-brain-real-news-2017-science) it talks about how it could be possible to upload knowledge to your brain, 2017 science

Look forward to hearing more about this :)

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WOW! very inspire。 Design a robot that can do surgery is a amazing dream, it can stay longer in this world for century. AI even make it perfect on robotics industry.

Incisive

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I wish I could live like that.
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