A few years ago I was a fresh consultant who thought "strategy" just meant making nice slides. These days I'm advising governments and enterprises on transformation programs across the Gulf. Still figuring a lot out.This is where I'll share what I pick up along the way. Tech, business, how to think a little sharper. The occasional Man Utd rant. One honest post at a time.
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On the pitch, the numbers are extraordinary. His country's all-time top scorer. His boyhood club's all-time top scorer. Six Golden Boots, four in the Premier League, one at a World Cup. Figures that the vast majority of strikers will never get close to.
And yet he remains one of the most written-off and underappreciated players of his generation. A man who has devoted everything to club and country, never once put a foot wrong off the pitch, and embodies every quality you could want from a professional footballer.
If you're looking for a role model, it doesn't get much cleaner than this. The fact it even needs pointing out says everything.
Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs and leaving 6,000 roles unfilled while pushing AI spend to $169B.
This signals a structural shift.
Growth is no longer driven by headcount.
It is driven by compute and intelligence.
L&T launching a new industrial electronics division feels like a quiet but important move.
India is slowly moving beyond assembly into actual electronics manufacturing.
That shift does not make headlines today.
But it changes supply chains tomorrow.
China’s DeepSeek is previewing a major model upgrade powered by Huawei chips.
This is not just another model release.
This is about reducing dependence on Western AI hardware and reshaping the global AI supply chain.
AI is becoming geopolitical infrastructure.
Most leaders think disruption is about technology.
In reality, disruption is about business models and customer behavior.
Technology is just the trigger.
Execution is what determines survival.
In enterise transformations, I see this mistake repeatedly.
Net-net from today:
→ More capital chasing compute
→ More AI embedded into everyday products
→ More legal and security pressure catching up
The model race didn’t end.
But the infrastructure war just became the real battlefield.
I break down AI shifts like this daily : follow if you want signal, not hype.
24 hours of AI news, and one thing is obvious:
The AI race isn’t about models anymore.
It’s about compute.
Chips. Cloud. Capital.
Whoever finances the biggest infrastructure wins.
Here’s what actually mattered today. 🧵
While the infra war dominates headlines,
consumer AI keeps shipping quietly:
• Google expanding Gemini reach
• Maps and Chrome getting deeper AI features
• OpenAI improving image text rendering
The big money builds the future.
The small updates change daily life.