First Day Back at School After Summer
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
Alexander Nevsky without the armour or the horse, but with three children, a dog, a collection of mortgage calculators, and a habit of turning every major life change into a new project. Dubai, real estate, design, fatherhood, relocation, and the observations of a man who has started over more than once — and now documents what comes next
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MINI #52: A Rally Legend Returns to Dubai
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.
1,064,143,356 tokens: how I work with Cursor and what the first billion taught me
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
16 August 2008: An Audit of White-Hot Time and the Formula 2 → 5
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
Yango Power Oman: a $150K investment pitch
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
Project 80: How I’m Going from 97.5 to 80 kg with ChatGPT
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.
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Walking to a River That Isn’t There
I walked beside the water through a city that knew the price of every square foot, but not what makes a person human. Memory kept changing, the body kept rebuilding itself, the machine was learning silence—and it was no longer clear which of us was merely the continuation of the other.
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