Essays
What I write about building companies in emerging markets, enterprise systems, and Syria in its reconstruction phase. Older and shorter pieces are in the archive.
A generation between two worlds: preparing those born 2010 to 2020 for a world that changes faster than we can learn
Institutions move in years, technology in weeks; how do we raise children for the gap between them?
Future problems
Before solving any problem I ask what kind it is: four kinds, one right move for each.
Before you sign the Odoo contract: you are not buying a system, you are redesigning your company
Choosing an Odoo partner is not a purchase won on price; it reshapes how your company works.
NGO Kit: the people who change the world deserve tools worthy of them
Humanitarian organisations carry the heaviest mission and the poorest tools; five years of listening became a package built for how they work.
A new technical dawn: Levant Host and dreams without borders in a free Syria
Every ambitious Syrian project after the liberation hit the same wall, no digital infrastructure it could trust; Levant Host was born there.
After liberation: how nations are born twice. The vision behind WorkLink
Real reconstruction starts with infrastructure for people and for data; the vision behind WorkLink.
Late delivery, the most common problem in software projects
Programming is a craft, and the beginner who has learned the tools thinks he can build anything; the difference from the expert is time and quality.
Why we need digital citizenship
Seven pillars of sound participation in the digital world, and why the region's schools need them first.
How Aleppo could become the region's first destination for web technology
Why not Aleppo as a technology destination? Five elements of a city's tech ecosystem, and first steps for each.
Programming is a profession that needs exceptional learning skills: the hardest challenge for the Arab programmer
What you learn today expires in eight months; a good programmer learns, applies, unlearns, and learns again.