Essays · Software · Institutions
Most of the problems we call technical are really problems of thinking — badly drawn boundaries, information that never reaches the person who needs it, institutions that cannot remember what they learned. I write about that, and I build software that tries to fix it.
We were never one people — and that is exactly what made us. For an ethnic group of forty million, the absence of a single founding myth is not a gap in the record. It is the record.
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“Most ethnic groups have a king, an origin and an apology. The Igbo have none of the three — and built anyway.”
Four attempts at the same argument, written in software instead of prose.
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The Thinking Map
Select a theme to see the essays and projects it connects to. Nothing here is a category — these are the places the same question keeps reappearing.
Behaviour comes from structure. Blame the loop, not the person inside it.
Essays
Projects
Unfinished thoughts, kept in public on purpose.
28 July
Every org chart is a theory of where information is allowed to travel. Most are wrong in the same direction: upward.
21 July
Question I cannot answer yet: what does a model owe the person it disagrees with?
14 July
Mental model: infrastructure is any decision that becomes expensive to reverse the day after you make it.
9 July
Scale is not a strategy. It is what happens to you after you had one.
2 July
The bottleneck in most African markets is not talent or capital. It is trust that can be transferred to a stranger.
Books currently open, and the handful that shaped how I see the rest.
Now
Seeing Like a State
James C. Scott
The Enigma of Reason
Mercier & Sperber
The Great Transformation
Karl Polanyi
Formative
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
Thinking in Systems
Donella Meadows
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Updated 12 July 2026
Building
The Spine’s second version — moving from capture to retrieval, which is where the difficulty always was.
Writing
A four-part series on institutional memory, out through the autumn.
Researching
How informal credit systems in West Africa price trust, and whether that pricing survives being written down.
Open question
What is the smallest institution worth building, and can software be the whole of it?
No announcements, no roundups. Just the writing, and occasionally a note on what the projects taught me.