With 12 years of experience in the tech and engineering industry including SAYS.com and Groupon in the past, you’d think the chief technical officer of Fave and Billplz mastered it all but as the man candidly tells Tatler, he loves reading and learning simply for the sake of it.
It doesn’t just stop at that, Arzumy MD also wants to help others grow from the knowledge. He conducts mentoring and knowledge sharing sessions weekly with local startups in addition to speaking as various tech events in the SEA region.
When he’s not sharing his knowledge professionally, this bookworm shares his love for reading with his two children. Sometimes, he reads his children's books too. In fact, he has always hoped that he could have the ability to learn things faster.
“I don’t think I really need any super power but if I had to choose it’d be the ability to learn very fast like Bradley Cooper's character did in Limitless through a special pill,” he laughs.
A Systematic Approach
Arzumy conducts a systematic approach to reading. He actually has a step-by-step idea of how to best absorb the information from a book, particularly for nonfiction reading materials.
"When I’m reading a nonfiction book, I would first ask myself what do I know about this subject. If I’m not lazy, I would write it down. If I am lazy then I’ll just mentally list it down,” he says with a chuckle.
“After that I will look at the index and see if there’s a gap of things that I don’t know. So when I start to see a gap in my knowledge, I’ll use this app called Blinkist to get an insight on what the book is about. Then I start reading,” he explains.
