I live in Dubai. I explore how technology, design, space and human life come together to form a new reality. Building digital products with AI, design, visual art and real estate are, for me, parts of a single view of the world. I look at interfaces, homes and the future through the lens of taste, systems thinking and real family life in Dubai
A studio shoot for a project. Somehow, I ended up in front of the camera
On client calls, I nod, sketch, and quietly redesign half the product in my head. Edits? Bring them on. I’ll still add a little extra: “just enough” never feels like enough
Two days of competition in Abu Dhabi: Kostya took bronze and 400 AED, Sanya won gold and 800 AED. Along the way, we finally nailed down our formula for surviving long tournament days without sitting around for hours inside Mubadala Arena.
The kids are back at school, and summer is officially over. We’re back to early mornings, lunchboxes, school runs, homework, activities — and the everyday logistics of family life with three kids in Dubai
A presentation for Alistera at Emaar Square in Dubai, designed in Figma and adapted for the immersive screens at TODA. Presented at the Middle East Invest Forum on May 16, 2026.
A Dubai mortgage is more than a down payment. I built a calculator that works out real cash required for the transaction, payments, DBR, DLD fees, bank valuation, returns and rent-versus-buy — in Russian, English and Arabic.
In two hours at a Dubai café, Anna — my secret business adviser — and I went from an idea to a B2B product: ChatGPT shaped the industry logic and data, Codex built the web service, and Cloudflare took it to production.
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At The CARS Café at Dubai Autodrome, AGMC unveiled the MINI 1965 Victory Edition — a modern JCW honouring the Mini Cooper S #52 victory at the 1965 Rallye Monte-Carlo. For us, MINI has long been more than a car: it is a small family generator of joy.
In a month I ran more than a billion tokens through Cursor. I unpack my usage, work out where the number comes from, and set down a working system: how to split tasks across sessions, when to open a new chat, and how to use Agent, Rules, Plan Mode and Subagents
The calendar presented its bill: 6,574 days under a blinding sun and 43.2% of my life on this side of our wedding day. Through hot concrete and millions of erased minutes, one equation remained: 2 → 5
From rockets over Dubai and empty villas in Tilal Al Ghaf to a surname overheard by chance and a black-and-green office on the thirty-fifth floor of the Citadel. That is how, in the summer of 2026, I ended up at Nevsky Realty
For almost two years, several evenings a week, Ira traded home life for the lecture rooms of Middlesex University Dubai. Now that long route has ended with a Master of Laws diploma — and another point on our map of Dubai
On 12 August Cursor released Grok 4.6 — a new version of the model they are building with SpaceXAI. And this time the update feels far more interesting than the usual few-percent bump on yet another benchmark suite
I recently put together an investment pitch for Yango Power in Oman. The project is launching a power-bank rental network in Muscat and is now raising $150K for the first stage of scaling
A 5-bedroom Type D villa for sale in Nineteen Riviera Lagoon with a total area of 1,539 m² / 16,552 sq.ft and planned handover in Q1 2027
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The oracle of the new age does not predict the future — he assembles it from branches and versions. Before him is not a crystal ball, but Git: commit fixes a choice, push sends it into the world. Code becomes a language of will, memory, and reality
4 bedrooms, 3,234 sq.ft BUA and a 4,667 sq.ft plot — a ready corner townhouse in Jebel Ali Village for AED 6.8M. Next to Sheikh Zayed Road, Ibn Battuta Mall, IKEA and full Jebel Ali infrastructure
A financed purchase should start with budget and pre-approval, not viewings. How I work with Huspy to take clients from bank application to property selection and completion
Harmony 3, Tilal Al Ghaf: a tenanted single-row 4BR villa with a study and driver’s room. Current rent is AED 420,000 per year. A private investor opportunity.
DAMAC marks 1,000+ sales in The Lifestyle Collection and rolls out fresh terms: 15% down payment, monthly instalments from 0.25%, 4% DLD fee waiver and apartments from AED 1.25M
A spacious five-bedroom villa with a private pool and garden in Harmony 3, Tilal Al Ghaf. 5,617 sq. ft. Available for rent from September at AED 850,000 per year
A spacious 5-bedroom villa with a private pool and garden in Harmony 3, Tilal Al Ghaf. 5,617 sq. ft., 6 bathrooms, staff rooms, parking for three cars. Available from September at AED 850,000 per year
Four years ago they let us out of Dubai Airport: Ira, three children with matching backpacks, and me — still a designer. Only now I’ve realised the escalator never stopped: all this time it has been carrying us through homes, careers, bills, cars and an entire sea towards a new version of the family
Bekki came to us as a reward for Alexander Jr’s jiu-jitsu victory, but quickly became something bigger: a friend to all three children, a guide through our move, and our little shepherd who now walks with me to Project 80 every morning
I launched Project 80: a path from 97.5 to 80 kg without magic or heroics. Every day I send ChatGPT my weight, walks, sleep, and photos of what I eat, and it helps me see the system rather than individual slip-ups.
Elysian Mansions, Tilal Al Ghaf: Muse residence No. 10 facing the lagoon is offered for AED 65M. Approximate readiness for move-in is about four months.
For 1,360 days an old Arab villa in Umm Suqeim raised our children, let rain into the bedroom, broke its air conditioners and sent me onto the roof to retrieve the electricity. In the end it summoned an army of cockroaches and kept half our deposit. We moved to the Palm — grateful, but exhausted.
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On Instagram: Dubai beyond the postcard — family, the city, discoveries and life between projects. On Threads: thinking out loud about design and AI. On YouTube: videos that need more room than a story. Follow me wherever you feel at home, and let’s keep in touch