Aug 29, 2026
AI agents can now book, buy and pay. The missing piece was a wallet they can actually control. Here is the market being built around agentic payments, and where I think it goes.
Aug 24, 2026
Fifteen questions that come up in real payments PM interviews, what each one is testing and what strong answers sound like. Gathered from comparing notes with fellow payments PMs.
Aug 19, 2026
Most fintech writing assumes a US context: cards everywhere, trust by default, one currency. Across MENAP the defaults flip. Here's what actually changes when you build where cash is the incumbent and mobile is the front door.
Jul 26, 2026
Google could already find me. The hard part was standing out from every other Saad Salman. How I made the site unambiguous, what schema could not do, which off-site links count and how to measure it, packaged as a Claude skill.
Jul 24, 2026
A small push, a row of growing dominoes and the moon. A short FAQ on why one right thing topples the next, and how doing that day after day compounds the same way.
One question from Gary Keller's The One Thing rearranged how I run my workdays: what's the one thing I can do such that everything else becomes easier or unnecessary?
Jul 19, 2026
MUFAP's own JSON endpoints reject any request that isn't a browser. So I scraped their public Fund Directory instead and open-sourced the result: a small, free API serving live NAVs for 500+ Pakistani mutual funds.
Jul 8, 2026
Subscriptions fund great products, then quietly tempt teams to make them worse. How recurring revenue degrades experience, who gets it right and a playable dark pattern that proves the point.
Jul 5, 2026
Most of us aren't bad with money, we're wired for today. Why financial regret lands so hard later in life, what a ten-year delay really costs (with the math) and four moves that put compounding on your side.
From an empty folder to a live site with a CMS, analytics, custom illustrations and its own domain, built end-to-end through one conversation with an AI coding agent.
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