Most of us will go through at least one traumatic event in our lifetime, that’s simply part of being human. But what we often forget is the other side of the story: the vast majority of us recover. And many even grow.

The truth is, no one is going to stop. Progress will keep accelerating because greed and competition won’t allow otherwise. But instead of fearing that, we can choose to guide it, to bring human ethics and compassion into the race. AI isn’t the enemy; our intentions are.

Once a month, I’m going to sit down with Premium members for an hour and talk, live, on Substack. The first fireside chat is on Sunday 1 November. 21:00 UAE · 18:00 Central Europe · 17:00 UK · 12:00 US East Coast · 09:00 US West Coast mogawdat.substack.com/p/nove…

AI isn’t coming for your job, someone who knows how to use it is. The world is shifting fast, and the ones who adapt, learn, and collaborate with AI will be the ones who thrive. Don’t resist the wave, ride it.

When people talk about Steve Jobs, they focus on discipline, intensity, and drive. But what truly made him extraordinary were the feminine qualities he mastered, empathy, creativity, a deep sense of beauty, an intuitive understanding of what people feel.

I worked hard, I saved, and I became successful. Then I asked my mother: where was all the happiness I now had a right to expect? The full post is on my Substack: mogawdat.substack.com

I’ve learned that scale can distort purpose. When you attach your sense of progress to numbers, you will always feel behind. There will always be a bigger audience, a higher metric, a wider reach. But meaning doesn’t expand with volume. It deepens with intention.

In a fast-changing world, knowledge alone is no longer the advantage. The game has shifted. It’s no longer a predictable chessboard where you calculate ten moves ahead. It’s a squash court, dynamic, reactive, and constantly in motion.

We are reaching a point where intelligence is no longer only created by humans, but increasingly refined by systems themselves.

Being single is not simply the time between relationships. It can be the space where you finally understand who you are without another person defining you. What went wrong last time? Which patterns do you keep repeating? . . .

Life often feels hardest when everything is built around proving, winning, or taking only for yourself.

This week, I released some of my earliest writing on Substack: the very first part of Solve for Happy, about the Happiness Equation. I’m now posting almost every week, I hope you follow me there: mogawdat.substack.com

When technology starts outperforming us at everything, even leadership, fear is not the answer, awareness is.

You tear your muscles by carrying heavy loads. Then you rest. Then they grow back bigger and stronger. That's not a metaphor, that's what's happening.

Understanding your partner’s biological cycle is not about excusing every emotion or assuming that everything she feels is hormonal. It is about context.

Intelligence, artificial or otherwise, is a force with no polarity. You can use it for good and create something that changes the world. You can use it for evil and build a dystopia for all of us.

The sufis say: die before you die, here's what that actually means

We run thoughts over and over in our heads because we've made a fundamental mistake, we think the voice in there is us, talking to us. And if it's us, it must be worth listening to.

Fear is one of the most powerful political tools.

If Sam Altman is saving humanity, why does he need to be a billionaire?