00:00:00Mohamed Maktabi
00:00:00Hani Al Malki
00:00:00Hani Al Malki
00:00:00Anthony Maalouf
00:00:00Nada Debs
00:00:00Omar Al Gurg
00:00:00Omar Al Gurg
00:00:00Zain Massoud
00:00:00Closing
00:15:11Intro
אודות פרק זה
The algorithm rewards the new, the rapid, the instantly shareable.
Brands need to go viral. Artists need to build audiences in months. Restaurants need to trend or they're written off. The entire vocabulary of ambition is built around the idea that if it's not happening fast, it's not happening at all.
And yet, across three seasons of Forward_Moves, the people who built the things that genuinely matter described almost none of it quickly.
Almost all of them went through the same journey: doing the work without being sure it was actually working. The durability of what they built is directly related to the time they spent inside it.
This episode is about that time. About what depth actually produces that speed cannot. About mastery as a daily decision, not a destination. And about the part of creative practice that never appears in any portfolio — the silent processing that happens not while you are working on the project, but in the hours around it.
Voices in This Episode
Mohamed Maktabi — CEO of Iwan Maktabi,
Hani AlMalki — Dubai-based food writer and curator known as Bedouin Foodie.
Anthony Maalouf — Lebanese architect.
Nada Debs — Designer and founder of Studio Nada Debs
Omar Al-Gurk — Emirati designer, architect, and photographer, founder of Modu Method.
Zain Massoud — Landscape designer
Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:30 Mohamed Maktabi on his Sufi mentor's lesson
05:09 Hani AlMalki on keeping it real
06:20 Hani on the shortcuts
07:51 Anthony Maalouf on the word ostentatious.
09:29 Nada Debs on intuition
10:52 Omar Al-Gurk on pottery as self-knowledge
12:25 Omar Al-Gurk on boredom as creative methodology
14:48 Zain Massoud
15:10 Closing comments
"It's a career that you can continue indefinitely. You only get better."
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