I live in Dubai. I explore how technology, design, space, and human life come together into a new reality. Real estate, design, artificial intelligence, and visual art are, for me, parts of a single view of the world. I look at homes, interfaces, and the future through the lens of taste, systems thinking, and real family life in Dubai
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.
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