Original essays about technology, judgment, power, and the choices institutions make.
Why AI wrappers are not deep technology, how original technical knowledge creates durable value, and what Saudi Arabia should build by 2030.
A proposal for a National Saudi Diwan of Human Knowledge built on authentic human data, consent, provenance, education, and public participation.
The digital prosperity paradox in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf: what cloud outages reveal about shared dependencies and service continuity—and what success indicators cannot prove.
What happens when inference prices fall faster than long-lived computing assets can recover their capital? An essay on software efficiency, paid demand, capacity and the commercial life of AI hardware.
How swarm intelligence, small specialized models, model routing, and local inference may reshape artificial intelligence systems.
Can satellites read the Saudi economy before its statistics arrive? An essay on nighttime radiance, GDP, data vintages, cultural calendars and the limits of economic inference from orbit.
How Groq’s LPU architecture, Saudi inference operations, cooling physics and deadline-aware scheduling could turn compute into measurable useful time.
Can Saudi Arabia turn documented technology failures into portable, inspectable tests that foreign buyers will pay to run again?
What makes a technical system reconstructible after its original supplier and build environment disappear? An essay on evidence, source rights and technical succession.
From a fire at the Public Prosecution office in Dammam to Kyiv and Svalbard: why backups alone cannot protect institutional memory, and how Saudi Arabia might evaluate data embassies as part of a wider architecture for sovereign continuity.
How can public services preserve bounded local decision authority during a network failure without pretending that a local copy has the centre’s truth?
From Shamoon to the Red Sea: a Saudi reading of what changes when some software expertise becomes a cloud service, and of the distance between help with code and a demonstrated military capability.
AI becomes useful when an institution defines the decision, the limits, and the responsibility before choosing the tool.
Measurements can improve attention while leaving context, values, and responsibility for a decision unresolved.
Security becomes credible when access, friction, recovery, and accountability are designed around the harm at stake.
The Intelligent Investor
Newly edited prose based on Safwan’s supplied Arabic review.
A margin of safety is a design for fallible judgment, not a promise that a low price will prevent loss.
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to FailFrom discovery to a margin of safety
A changing price is an offer; deciding whether it is attractive requires an independent account of value and its assumptions.
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to FailFrom value networks to price and value
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to FailFrom useful performance to price and value
A result informs the review of a decision, but it cannot replace an examination of the evidence, process, and risks known at the time.
Creativity, Inc.From the hidden to decision quality
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Newly edited prose based on Safwan’s supplied Arabic review.
Customers, processes, margins, and measures of success shape which possibilities an organization can turn into funded work.
The Intelligent InvestorFrom value networks to price and value
Creativity, Inc.From candor to value networks
A technically weaker offer can matter when it is sufficient for a particular use and changes cost, access, convenience, or participation.
The Intelligent InvestorFrom useful performance to price and value
An emerging market calls for experiments that resolve decisive uncertainty before a large forecast or budget hardens around it.
The Intelligent InvestorFrom discovery to a margin of safety
Creativity, Inc.From unfinished work to discovery before scale
Creativity, Inc.
Newly edited prose based on Safwan’s supplied Arabic review.
Criticism becomes productive when people can name a problem precisely without using expertise or rank to take ownership of the work away from its makers.
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to FailFrom candor to value networks
An immature idea deserves conditions in which it can develop, together with evidence that it is actually learning rather than merely consuming protection.
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to FailFrom unfinished work to discovery before scale
Responsible systems assume that rank, incentives, and technical autonomy can conceal material problems from the people expected to act on them.
The Intelligent InvestorFrom the hidden to decision quality