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
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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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.
Today, July 12, we are moving!
Today we are leaving our old Arab villa in Umm Suqeim and moving to Palm Jumeirah. Moving a family of five took two large trucks, an extra pickup, and the wonderful Union Movers team.
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An ordinary day in the life of a Dubai broker: coffee, calls, investments — and a sudden transformation into a superhero when a client wants a Burj Khalifa-area apartment with strong returns and, ideally, the keys yesterday.
Since July 2026, I have been working as a real estate consultant at Nevsky Realty. How a product designer came to Dubai real estate, why finding the right agency became a professional journey of its own, and what comes next on nevsky.ae.
Attended a meeting of the Dubai Healthy Person community - chamber business psychotherapy in the new art space DOM. Speakers, live conversations and the question that hangs in the air on everyone: what's next?
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