Toss Up: Faisal Kapadia

Writer, blogger and commentator, Faisal Kapadia, rises to our rapid fire challenge


November 15, 2017

Faisal kapadia is a renowned Digital Strategist and CEO of Mind Map Communications, a 360 degree digital agency focused on creating disruption and virality through their campaigns. He is also a writer, blogger and commentator with a strong voice in the socio-economic and technology space in Pakistan

If you could meet anyone in the world dead or alive who would it be and what would you say to them?

Muhammad Ali the boxer was my hero as I grew up. I would like to meet him although he is not amongst us anymore and tell him how he inspired me to rise above the ordinary and to never give up no matter how much people put you down.



If you were stranded on a deserted island, what three items would you take with you?

My laptop, a satellite phone for WiFi  and flip flops.

What would be harder for you, to tell someone you love them or that you don’t love them back?

Expression has never been an issue for me so neither of the above would be hard for me.

What do you think would be the hardest thing for you to give up?

Writing..I am predominantly a wordsmith so giving that up would be impossible.

What makes you bored?

Mediocrity of effort.

Are you old fashioned?

Yes as these days believing in chivalry, honour and honesty is considered old fashioned, thus I am.

Something or someone you miss the most from your childhood?

The carefree abandon of not knowing what tomorrow holds.

Punctual or late?

Early.

If you could only have one of the following, which would you choose? : Trust or love?

Trust because without that love or any positive emotion cannot exist.



Tell us about your favourite book, magazine or comic?

My favourite magazine is Popular Science and my favourite book is The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov.

Who is someone you envy?

I envy someone who can abandon everything to just write and do nothing else in life.

The worst punishment you received as a child?

Not being able to read comic books when grades suffered was the worst.

Name three things in nature you find most beautiful?

Sunsets, waves at the beach and jungle waterfalls.

Which are your two favourite careers and why?

Digital strategy and diplomacy.

The hardest thing  you’ve ever had to do?

Suffer through a spell of disability related to my eyes.

When was the last time you lied and to whom and why?

I don’t lie.

Something you regret in life?

Having had a chance to work with some top notch tech firms in their formative years I gave it up to come back to Pakistan.



What scares you the most and why?

The dark, again because of my experience with eye-related disability.

If you could trade places with any other person for a week, famous or not famous, living or dead, real or fictional, with whom would it be?

Marco Polo.

What’s the best and worst part of your job?

The best thing about what I do is that I get to deal with cutting edge stuff in the digital field and experiment on it to realise how it has impact in the local landscape. The worst thing is when people don’t understand that we digital strategists have to sleep as well.

Who is your favourite client?

My favourite client is someone who trusts me to do what they have hired me to do.

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