Essays

Essays

The word essay (essai) means attempt, an experiment without guarantees.

Let’s try again, and again.

Essays

2025

A List of Lists

'Free' Costs Everything

Lessons from 1 Year at Rockefeller

Tech Bros Love Running

Contribute to Open Source!

Taoism, Sufism, and Western Thought

الأدب هو كل ما لم يحدث

Les Culs-Reptiles

Lo que los grandes ven como sombrero

2024

Verifiability as a Market

How I built Developer Communities

Bitcoin and People in Crisis

Food is Language, Language is Home

Blockchain Use Cases (No Bullshit)

نوال السعداوي في عالمٍ لا يقرأ

L’imposture de L’art

Le Récit Comme Moteur du Temps

2023

How do Stablecoins work?

Large Layers of Madness

Entre Savoir et Spectacle

Nour’s Wrapped

Nour’s 2025 Wrapped

Nour’s 2024 Wrapped

Nour’s 2023 Wrapped

Talks

Building your AI Workforce - Young Presidents Organization 2024

The Knowledge Layer for (Gen) AI - DevCon 2024

Accelerating Blockchain Education - Consensus 2024

Misc