What if the property, not the order, is the product?
While working on ByyN, I started questioning why the order was the center of the product at all. Services, data and decisions could accumulate around the property instead.
Thinking
Everything, in order.
Product, decisions, and everything that feeds them — in English and in Arabic, each as itself.
Six things I keep returning to.
Some came from books, some from being wrong in production. Each one is here because it changed how I work.
Planning isn’t the goal. Increasing execution capacity is.
A plan is a bet on a future you can’t see. Capacity is what lets you place another bet next week, cheaply.
AI doesn’t only make developers faster. It changes who gets to become a builder.
The interesting shift isn’t velocity, it’s eligibility. People who could previously only describe a product can now produce one that runs.
The report isn’t the product. The decision is.
Building Qrarat changed how I think about inspection products. A report ships everything it knows; the useful version commits to a verdict and keeps the evidence one layer underneath.
When a team keeps missing, look at the structure before the people.
Missed dates are usually a symptom of a queue nobody owns, a dependency nobody sees, or a decision that has no home.
Engineering taught me the cost of a decision. Product taught me the cost of not making one.
Ten years of systems work left me with a physical sense of what decisions cost. What it didn’t teach me is that ambiguity compounds faster than technical debt.
A roadmap is a list of bets, not a list of promises.
The moment a roadmap becomes a promise, discovery becomes a threat. Everyone starts defending the plan instead of testing it.
لماذا يكذب الملائكة الصغار
قبل ثلاثة أسابيع كنت أكلم زوجتى على الهاتف ونتناقش فى بعض المشاكل التى تواجهها فى تربية الأولاد، لما صدمتنى بأن ابننا الصغير يكذب.
عود الخشب
تمسك بعود طويل من الخشب وترسم دائرة عملاقة على التراب .. ترسم دائرة أصغر بداخلها.
Can a VC operating model become software?
I’m exploring how the messy work between investment thesis, founder evaluation, venture building and execution can become a working system.