Off duty · no calculators past this point

Hard hat off

Halifax weekends, two daughters, and a phone full of filters. The serious stuff is on the other pages.

Ali and his daughter by a lake at sunset in autumn
Autumn evening by the water
Ali with his two daughters in front of a bandstand lit in blue at night
Winter lights
Selfie of Ali and his daughter laughing
Missing tooth, full smile
Side-by-side selfies of Ali and his daughter both wearing red lipstick
Same lipstick
Side-by-side selfies of Ali and his daughter with a purple pig face filter
Same snout
Side-by-side selfies, one daughter pulling a face and Ali in a turkey costume filter
Thanksgiving, apparently
Ali and his daughter picking a Christmas tree at a tree lot strung with lights
Picking the tree

Three things about me

01A place

Baalbek to Halifax

I grew up in Baalbek, in the shadow of Roman columns older than most countries. Passing the entrance exam for the Lebanese University Faculty of Engineering in Beirut was the first dream I ever chased down, and the five years that followed were nothing but circuits, calculations and very little sleep. The work took me to Jeddah, then to Doha for commercial towers and oil and gas, and finally across the Atlantic to Halifax. The accent moved with me. So did the stubbornness.

02A habit

Agents after dark

My evenings and weekends disappear into building AI agents. Small ones, each with one job, most of them useless on the first try. I fix them, then start the next one. The estimating tools on this site are what happens when that habit meets an electrical estimator who could not stop.

03An opinion

Nobody is lazy

Most people are not lazy. They are managed badly. Give someone a clear goal and leave them alone, and you will see what they are actually capable of. I have watched this happen on job sites in three countries, and I have never seen it fail.

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