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?

You are not only a heart, a body, and a mind, you also have a spirit

When you look deeply at life, you only really need two things

Boredom exists to tell you to create something better, social media exists to stop you from hearing that

Humanity did not survive because every individual was exceptionally strong or intelligent.

I spend four hours a day keeping up with AI. But I have to, I need to understand the core code. You don't.

Love connects us. Compassion turns that connection into action. It asks us not only to recognise another person’s pain, but to do what we can to reduce it.