I’m closing this season of writing with the long view. Where music, voice, film, AI and fashion meet over the next five years — and what I’m specifically building toward. Less prescriptive than the rest of the season; more thinking out loud.
The thesis
The most valuable creative work in 2031 will live at the intersection of cultural specificity, AI-augmented production, and multi-disciplinary distribution. Single-discipline specialists will be commoditised by AI. Generic multidisciplinary creators will be drowned out by noise. The artists who win will be the ones who are unmistakably from somewhere, augmented by tools, and present across multiple forms simultaneously.
What that looks like for me
Five concrete bets:
- HGM Moe Ji One becomes a legitimate global Khaleeji-Afrobeats project. Body of work, festival appearances outside MENA, sync placements in international film and TV. The thesis I’ve been writing about, lived.
- MLO Technologies becomes the default Saudi-first AI infrastructure layer. MCP servers for every major Saudi platform, an Arabic-language application stack, government and enterprise customers.
- Raw Studios SA becomes the production company of record for Saudi-led films. Not the biggest. The most respected.
- L&O Apparels graduates from streetwear into a contemporary Khaleeji fashion house. Shows in Riyadh, Paris, Tokyo. Wearable Saudi cultural export.
- Voice work becomes a curated practice rather than a job. Fewer projects, deeper roles, more directing.
What I’m not building toward
Just as important to name what I’m NOT trying to be:
- Not a billionaire — that’s the wrong scoreboard
- Not famous in the celebrity sense — fame is a bad input for the work
- Not single-discipline excellent — depth matters but so does breadth
- Not a public commentator — I write to think, not to perform
What stays the same
Five things I’ll still be doing in 2031, regardless of how the rest goes:
- Sleeping eight hours
- Walking daily
- Reading books
- Sundays off
- Showing up for the work, on the days when nobody’s watching
The long ambition
I want, by my mid-thirties, to have produced a body of work — across music, film, voice, technology, fashion, words — that proves the multidisciplinary thesis. Not as a slogan. As a stack of artefacts. Songs you can listen to, films you can watch, products you can use, clothes you can wear, words you can read. Each one strengthening the others.
The honest part
None of this might happen. The plans I had at 25 looked nothing like the work I’m actually doing at 30. The plans I have at 30 will look nothing like the work I’ll actually be doing at 35. The point of the long view isn’t the prediction; it’s the direction. The direction is what every weekly decision is downstream of.
The closing thought
If you’ve read this far through 60 essays over four months, thank you. Some of it was useful, some of it was thinking out loud, all of it was honest about where I am right now. The next season starts here. Voice. Music. Cinema. Code. Fashion. Words. Build with me.
From Riyadh, to wherever the work calls. — Moe.