In order
The journey
Ordered by when it happened, not when I wrote it up. Start at the top and read down.
6 chapters, 2019 to 2026.
2019
- Method4 min read
On feeling stupid
The hardest barrier to learning anything is not difficulty. It is the moment you feel stupid and your brain starts looking for the exit. Here is what actually works on it.
2020
- Method4 min read
Eleven things a day
I wanted to know my actual daily learning capacity, so I tested it. I started at three subjects thinking that was the ceiling and ended at eleven. Two of them failed.
- Method4 min read
The three beliefs that keep people stuck
Waiting to get started, waiting for perfect conditions, and having tried once and failed. Three sentences people say about themselves that quietly decide the next decade.
2022
- The pivot5 min read
What they said would happen
In 2022 I listed three things people told me I would quit. Two were already done. The third I left open, because I did not know yet. Four years later I can close it.
2026
- AI delivery4 min read
The knowledge gap is the business model
When I got into tech in 2020, what bothered me most was watching experts use what clients did not know as a pricing tool. Six years on, the pattern has not changed.
- The pivot2 min read
Why I'm writing this down
I studied accounting, taught myself to code, and now run a licensed software agency in the UAE. The useful part was never the code. It was everything around it.