The word essay (essai) means attempt, an experiment without guarantees.
Let’s try again, and again.
Essays
2026
26 Years Around the Sun
2025
A List of Lists
Negative Space
'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