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
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
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Yesterday, 20 August, AGMC
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
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
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.
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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