About Me
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who let life happen to them, and those who insist on building systems to live by. I have always belonged to the second kind.
The world I grew up in was not uniform. It was shaped by movement across borders, by my parents’ wisdom and bluntness, by proverbs carried in translation, by classrooms and clinics, and by boardrooms and books. My mother taught me that people greet a rising sun, that appearances matter, and that strength lies in putting down crutches and standing on one’s own two feet. My father taught me the power of two words—“So what?”—as a philosophy of detachment. These sayings became the raw material for my thinking: fragments of lived truth that I would carry, sharpen, and test against my own experience.
Over time, I began to collect maxims—rules not as commandments, but as reminders. They were not written to impress, but to clarify. Some were harsh: a cowardly friend is worse than an enemy. Some were gentle: accept humbly, let go freely. Some were strategic: when provoked, your reaction alone decides whether the provocation lasts. Together, they form a pattern: a life lived at the intersection of philosophy and practice.
At my core, I am not a theorist but a builder. I do not write or think to decorate ideas—I write to refine actions. Time, for me, is the ultimate resource, and philosophy is the calculus by which I spend it. History is what separates us from animals, but it is also the soil from which futures grow. I have learned that control of the self is the only true control, and that leadership means serving without the illusion of unanimity.
This is why my work stretches across different domains: medicine, business, writing, and community. Each is a laboratory in which these rules are tested. As a medical student, I see how discipline and compassion fuse. As an entrepreneur, I see how persuasion and restraint decide outcomes. As a writer, I see how silence and words both carry power.
The voice you will hear in my words is blunt at times, strategic at others, and occasionally prophetic. It comes not from certainty, but from synthesis—of family wisdom, philosophical study, lived experience, and relentless questioning. My aim is not to hand down doctrine but to invite others into clarity: clarity about themselves, about the world, and about what they choose to build.
I do not claim perfection, and I do not claim originality. What I claim is intent: the intent to live deliberately, to resist complacency, and to lead until I no longer need to.
If you understand this, you understand me.
The following are some of the things I have built:
- JANUS: A creative marketing agency specializing in helping software and DTC companies immediately communicate their value to an audience.
- Brask — a community for young like-minded builders and do-ers of the world
- AlmostMed — get matched and mentored by someone Just One Step Ahead i.e. a premed gets matched to a med student, med student to a resident & resident to an attending.
- MedAtlas: an all-in-one platform for premeds, medical students, residents, and attendings to help with everything from med school applications to negotiating your first raise as an attending.
- ClaimGuard: Like Grammarly but for Hospital Billing & Claims departments to catch and fix medical coding errors before they hit the clearinghouse, reducing preventable-billing errors by up to 40%.
- Course Platform: A platform for creators and professionals to easily create & publish e-learning courses. Fully integrated payment processing.
- RaiseReady: a platform to help employees land higher salaries by practicing their negotiation skills.
- Sitr: an event management platform with airplane-like seating charts and integrated CRM functionality to make your events come to life, quickly and memorably.
- Mr. Jones: a language learning app that lives in iMessage and uses Zipf's law to teach learners the most common words of the target language.
If any of it resonates, you’re welcome to follow along.
LINKS
💼 JANUS: https://janusny.com
🧑🏫 Junto Community: https://braskgroup.com
🌐 Personal Page: https://thisisalimirza.com
👨💻 GitHub: https://github.com/thisisalimirza
🐦 All socials: @thisisalimirza