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I write to figure things out, not to perform.

Working notes from building regulated products, and the occasional teardown of someone else's numbers.

2026

  1. Jun Did Jahez Diversify From Strength or From Fear? Saudi Arabia's first tech IPO is caught between a profitable giant and a bottomless one. What its diversification really admits, read against the rivals' own filings. 30 min

2025

  1. Jun What I got wrong about the Gulf I brought a playbook. The market wanted proximity and patience instead. 7 min
  2. Mar Why I stopped treating regulation as a tax It turned out to be the most defensible thing we built. 8 min

2024

  1. Nov The org chart ends up in the product How we were organized shaped what we shipped, for better and worse. 7 min