Building in the Desert
The full essays live on Substack — here's what's up so far.
I write a Substack called Building in the Desert — personal essays about relocating, motherhood, rebuilding a career, and what building looks like in Dubai's startup world. It started as a way to process the last year and a half. Turns out other women going through some version of the same transition — in different cities, at different stages — read it too.
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Here's what nobody tells you about moving somewhere new as a new mom: the loneliness is a specific kind of lonely.
On relocating to Dubai with a newborn, and the specific texture of new-mother loneliness.
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I met a founder building an app for bull semen analysis. Not a metaphor. Actual bull semen.
Silicon Valley's organic density versus Dubai's state-engineered startup ecosystem — what the trade actually is.
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She is not a niche. She is a preview.
Archetype sketches of the builders you run into constantly here — and which two or three you probably are at once.
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You don't know what you actually need from a cofounder until you've already lived through getting it wrong.
A checklist, built from getting it wrong once.
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[Each title currently links to the Substack homepage — swap in the direct post URLs once handy.]